Some people say that! It is taken from RIVER INDUS of Pakistan.
INDUS RIVER IS IN PAKISTAN AND NOT IN INDIA THEN WHY INDIA IS KNOWN AS INDIA & THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDUS AND INDIA AS WELL. Even if I do agree that it is taken from river INDUS, then it becomes even more ridiculous because Pakistan is not a friendly country to India & the very main identity which is the name of any country like INDIA, is sort of alms from its rival country PAKISTAN.
Above all INDIA should have changed its name when PAKISTAN came into being, it is certainly funny that RIVER INDUS is not in INDIA but INDIA is derived from a Pakistani river "INDUS".
And other part of the question remains that from which language INDUS it is taken from? and if INDIA is derived from INDUS then it has certainly no meanings because derived words themselves normaly do not have meanings.
INDIA need to change its NAME before anything because they are probably the only country in the world which has meaningless name
2006-11-25 09:16:49 · 5 answers · asked by Truth Speaker by research 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
India is a name coined by the British and after they left it was blindly followed by the so called learned politicians at that time.
Original name is Bharat.
The mugals called it Hindustan as none of the original settlers were muslims.
2006-11-26 20:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by amuiscute 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The name India is derived from Indus, which is derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the historic local appellation for the Indus River. The name India is given by the British, which is still followed worldwide.
During the 1947 independence and formation of Pakistan, the Indians wanted the name as "Hindustan", on which Gandhiji disagreed as he wanted it to be a nation for all religions, and not only Hindu's.
The Constitution of India and common usage also recognise Bharat as an official name of equal status though its contemporary use is unevenly applied
2006-11-28 08:27:37 · answer #2 · answered by Mantra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name India is indeed derived from Indus, which is derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the historic local appellation for the Indus River.
It is true that the Indus River is in Pakistan, but what is Pakistan today was India before partition. India is also called Bharat, as Japan is called Nippon by her people.
2006-11-25 17:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by gimmeaclue 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the greeks called it the indus river and called the people who lived there the indus, later the muslims came and added a h making them hindus, and they changed the name to hindustan, finally when the british came the changed the name to india because that sounded better to them, the real name of india is bharat, pakistan was not a separate country and it didn't used to be muslim, they shared the same culture
2006-11-25 17:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by wafflehouse 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
names are all meaningless to some extent.
Look at the way language changes. gay used to
mean happy and joyful. discrimination used to
be a good thing as in "she has discriminating taste."
Native Americans probably enjoy the word Indian
too.
The West Indies are certainly West.
Sri Lanka has changed its names a few times.
Beijing, Peking, Cambodia, Kampuchea, Mumbai,
Bombay.
A lot of these are just historical artifacts that will
change in time as needed.
Change will happen when it is ready. What about
Belize?
2006-11-25 17:25:59 · answer #5 · answered by farmer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋