hi folks,

i am answering the request in a shortway and in case anyone of you wanna know more please feel free to ask me about which aspect because whitney has asked about a long story in a short way.

hinduism is not a religion at all. because it is a solidification of an array of methods of worship and forms of gods and we are grateful to the brahmins who were the preist community who had worked hard to make it into an oneness in a near thousand years.the negative outcome of this resulted in caste system and ignorance of equality of civil rights but then no body can predict rosy outcome in all ways and means of doing things.

well now going to the question was there hinduism about 2000 years back. no

in the buddhist times there were three great groups namely the jain theerthangaras, the shaivites , the aryans, the zorastrians and the celtics, tibetans and aryans.

these were descendants of the respective civilizations.the mohanjo daro harappan civilisation were having a devanagari script identical to the dravidians of the deep suth.

again there existed a pagan worship and goddess worship and then gnosis worship. the leader of gnosis worshipwas centred around lord muruga who is described as the peacock angel by the gnosis community whicgg beleieves that the mankind originated in deep south india in the land of lemuria or kumari kandam or leh kingdom which submerged.

even to this day the hindu deny lord muruga the right place.

secondly the nagas or the nag people are the descendants of the lemurians supposedly who ruled indian and worshipped snake god which has gradually got imbibed into hindu worship.

chandragupta maurya led the united indian region groups against the invading foriegn civilisations and succeeded in establishing a coalition of religious groups united against an enemy and then his son the grat ashoka proclaimed buddhism as the unifying religion.but the brahmins and jains did not like buddhism and joint hands in demolishing all buddhist places of worships and universities and places of learning inorder to gain control of the masses because philosophy was grained gorund not theology.

the muslim invaders erased the buddhist because they were people friendly and organising martial arts

medicine and education . so genocide and masskillings of buddhists were undertaken.

then there was uprising of the bhakti movement because they could not convert the genral population into muslim and had to marry or mate with the local ladies who were wedded to their religion. so the bhakti cult came in and the hinduism revived by the brahmins who modified religious texts in order revive religous faith into a national movement.

there were vaishnavites, shiavites who were bitter enemies and shakti worship from pagan worship

all these were rolled into one by stories were shiva romanced shakti and vishnu became shaktis brother and conducted marriage etc.,

so many myths were manipulations for mankind benefit or unification process snaskrit became the language of the gods and brahmins and all otheres were forbidden to read and learn and all religious texts were in sanskrit and rites and unwanted cults have been followed . people were brain washed with astrology and theology and education was offered only to the brahmins and the rest were not empowered with education so for centuries all texts and litterature were written by only one group.

and that is hinduism. still the remnants of shakti cult, shaivism , vishnuvism and bhuddism and jainism exists and there are hoardes of religious sects.

caste was cleverly used for 2000 centuries to keep the masses divided and the invading british has used class as a form of division, colur , aryan dravidan concept and cult as a form of dividing and ruling but thy gave good governance and unified the entire india with better education and equal opportunities in job and civil rights.

only with the invasion of british had hinduism got unified because there was muslim and christianity as other religions.

now with this background information i am ready to answer the other aspects of hinduism if specifically addressed.