 A sense of Hindu identity and the term "Hindu" appears in some texts dated between the 13th and 18th century in Sanskrit and Bengali.The 14th- and 18th-century Indian poets such as Vidyapati, Kabir and Eknath used the phrase "Hindu dharma" (Hinduism) and contrasted it with "Turaka dharma" (Islam).The Christian friar Sebastiao Manrique used the term 'Hindu' in religious context in 1649.