From where does name "INDIA" originated and who renamed Bharat with India??

Answer 1

India
The English term is from Greek Ἰνδία, via Latin India. Ἰνδία in Hellenistic ethnography denotes the region beyond the Indos river, from Persian Hindu. The Persian term is cognate to Sindhu, the Sanskrit name of the river, but also meaning "river" generically.

The name India was known in Anglo-Saxon, and was used in King Alfred's translation of Orosius. In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered early modern English as Indie. The use of the name India dates from the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese. [1]

Sanskrit Indu "drop of Soma", also a term for the Moon, is unrelated, but has sometimes been erroneously connected. Listed by, among others, Colonel James Todd in his Annals of Rajputana, he describes the ancient India under control of tribes claiming descent from the Moon, or "Indu", and their influence in Trans-Indian regions where they referred to the land as Industhan.


[edit] Bharat
The name Bharat[2] (Hindi Bhārat) is used for the Republic of India, derived from Bhārata in the official Sanskrit name of the country, Bhārata Gaṇarājya.

The Sanskrit word bhārata is a vrddhi derivation of bharata, which was originally an epithet of Agni. The term is a verbal noun of the Sanskrit root bhr-, "to bear / to carry", with a literal meaning of "to be maintained" (of fire). The root bhr is cognate with the English verb to bear and Latin fero.

The Bhāratas are an Indo-Aryan tribe mentioned in the Rigveda, notably participating in the Battle of the Ten Kings.

The term Bhārata as a name for India as a whole is derived from the name of Bharata son of Dushyanta, a legendary ruler mentioned in the Mahabhārata (the core portion of which is itself known as Bhārata). The realm of Bharata is known as Bharātavarṣa in the Mahabhārata and later texts.

The Vishnu Purana (2.3.1) has:

uttaraṃ yatsamudrasya himādreścaiva dakṣiṇam / varṣaṃ tadbhārataṃ nāma bhāratī yatra santatiḥ
"The country (varṣam) that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bhāratam; there dwell the descendants of Bharata."
The term in Classical Sanskrit literature is taken to comprise the territory of the contemporary Republic of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, as well as portions of eastern Afghanistan, or roughly the Indian subcontinent. This corresponds to the approximate extent of the historical Maurya Empire under emperors Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka the Great (4th to 3rd centuries BC). Later political entities unifying approximately the same region are the Mughal Empire (17th century), the Maratha Empire (18th century) , and the British Raj (19th to 20th centuries).

Answer 2

India derives that name from Indus (Sindhu) region or valley, a cradle of civilization! Bharat is from mythology/history, commemorating a great king Bharat who ruled the country!

Answer 3

Should star this questions as Indian I did not know this but I know who is Shah Ruk Khan.

Answer 4

original is bharatham. india is called by arabies