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The many names of India
- India is the name of our country, but it was known by different names in different times.
- Some of the earliest names of India were:
- Bharatvarsha
- Jambudwipa
- India was also called the land of the people who lived along the river Sindhu .
- The word Sindhu became Hindu in Persian and Inde in French.
- The word Inde became India in English.
- The word Hindustan had different meanings in different times.
- In the thirteenth century Minhaj - i - Siraj used the term ‘Hindustan. He meant the areas of Punjab, Haryana and the lands between the Ganga and Yamuna.
- Some medieval scholars used it to mean the lands under the Delhi Sultanate.
- The Mughal emperor Babur used it to describe the geography and natural vegetation of the subcontinent.
- In the nineteenth century, during the British Raj, Hindustan became synonymous with India.
