Communal Relations - Conflicting Narratives

[Bharatvarsh]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->People in Srilanka, Bali, Nepal are Hindus. And I said people with ancestral relations with India - that includes all Hindus who are not Indians.
The reason for a geopolitical definition is that the 'other side' is going to consider them Hindus. This includes Sikh, Jain, Budhhists. The fact that Sikhs, Jains and Budhhists (with ancestral/current Indian links) do not consider themselves Hindus is for them to ponder. Their narrative is also part of the Hindu narrative - are you going to exclude the great struggles of the Sikh Gurus from the Hindu narrative? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
But not all Hindus have ancestral relations with India, what for example would be the ancestral relation of a white Hindu in Europe with India?

Also whether Sikhs or others don't want to be called Hindus is for them to decide, why should we insist that they are Hindus when they do not want to be labelled as such especially when we ourselves are not followers of their particular tradition, there are individual Sikhs out there who consider themselves as Hindus which is fine by me but we shouldn't be insisting that they are all Hindu when they vehemently deny it.