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Yes, I am well aware of that.Hindu as in Shehanshah of Hindustan used long before British era.
Again I am aware of that.Hindu, Hindustan, Hindko language or even Hindukush mountains all referred to geo ethnics linguistic identities not coined the British but people of the region long before Brits stepped in Indian subcontinent.
Read Babarnama, once he enters east of Kandahar Babar says he has moved into 'Hindustan'
This is where I have issues. The problem is people of Republic of India conflate the modern term India/Hindu with these historical terms. The fact is whatever they were, they were the antecedents of modern Pakistani's and Afghans on this siude of the Hindu Kush meaning the Pashuns. We did not come from Africa or Europe or Turkey. Our basic stratum is native to Gandhara region or Sulaiman Mountain range which today is the Af-Pak region. That is Kabul to Islamabad.Hindu shai kings were local tribes of Punjab and eastern Afghanistan, they were your people and of course are ethnically related to Indian punjab/hariyana/Western UP, Himachal, Rajastan though not to Odisha, Andhara or Assam but India is too big and in geo ethnic term Hindu/Indians encompassed everyone of us since long.
Very few countries are ethnic or genetic islands. Thus of course we are going to have overlaps with all ourneighbours including Iran, Afghanistan, China, India. But that overlap does not define India that you alluded to. They are India's border regions making less than 5% of the population. India is primarily a Ganga River civilization given that more than 600 million Indians live on that basin.
What I particularly take issue is Indian's using the historical Hind, Hindush, Sind etc as basis to make claims. That is nonsense. What next? Are Indo-nesians, West Indians or even US state of Indiania going to make claims on our historical heritage?
Like I always give the example of modern Roman-ia having not being the home of the Roman Empire despite the shared name. Yet the land that birthed the Roman Empire is called Italy today. Bit I never see Romanians claiming Roman Empire as theirs.
Names change over time. Hell even the Europes gypsies are called ROMA but they are hardly the descendants of the mighty Roman Empire.
TRhe people you mention their blood still isfound in the veins of people in Jalalabad, Peshawar, Mardan, Swabi, Mansehra etc and not in Kolkatta, Chennai or Mumbai.