Here is something which I find very convincing. Religion can not be imposed by birth. It is not something which we inherit, it is something we believe in Chris,t was a Jews. I had a long discussion with two Irish guys in this issue About, Suddhodhan & Mayawati , they were Tharus.I am not very sure about the religion they follow but definitely it is close to Hinduism. Tilaurakot was a Tharu kingdom. If you go back to history(some 100 years back), the people living in that area were predominantly Tharus. The last Tharu king's family were effected by diahorrea that spreaded very badly in that area some 80 or 90 years ago. So far the connection of this reicarnation issue,Hinduism itself is a history book, the characters in there , are the real life people with a bit of exaggeration of course.So, may be it was just an easy way for the promoters of Hinduism to include someone calling them the reincarnation of one of the characters avoiding further conflict. But the bright side of this manipulation is that ,they have embraced each other happily without any threat.Whoever did it but Very wise move indeed! Feel free to disagree