 Beyond the stipulations of British law, colonial orientalists and particularly the influential Asiatick Researches founded in the 18th century, later called The Asiatic Society, initially identified just two religions in India – Islam, and Hinduism.These orientalists included all Indian religions such as Buddhism as a subgroup of Hinduism in the 18th century.These texts called followers of Islam as "Mohamedans", and all others as "Hindus".