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An excellent explanation supporting your argument is given here.

My point was that many people are defensive about polytheism, arguing that Hinduism is not polytheistic and that Hindus dont worship idols & thats somehow a corruption of older thoughts. While the argument is not unreasonable because there is enough lines of thinking suggesting a basic...

Not a correct understanding of evolution. We did not evolve from "monkeys", we and the "monkeys / apes" have a common ancestor who was probably more ape like than human like.

My point was limited to the squeamishness some feel in being called idolaters by followers of another religion.

I dont know why this apparent queasiness about idol worship, polytheism etc....seems a lot of people are somehow embarrassed by it, as if the alternative of one God somehow makes any more sense. Either the idea of God is nonsensical or it's not, the silliness in arguing the number is pathetic.

Scheduled tribes can be non Hindus. The rest, correct...:biggrin2:

Not really, neither Buddhism nor Jainism have the concept of God and both Buddhist and especially Jain philosophers have had contempt for the argument of a creator God. Parts of Hindu thought has the same philosophical line. The presence of an God as an absolute must is found only in the west...