Why INDIA's name is INDIA in English?

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MÃ¼ller

The name India comes from the River Indus, which was called Sindhu by the ethnic Indians. If I remember correctly, all the invaders, be it Alexander or Mughuls had to cross this river before they entered India. So they called the persons living across this river as Indians (ones living across Indus)

In fact the name Indus was coined by the Greeks at the time of Alexander's invasion. This name became widely used in Europe and hence the name in English.

The invaders from middle east called the country Hindustan (meaning the place of Hindus). Hindu again is derived from Sindhu.

filipino

the british people called India as India when they occupied the subcontinent in the 18th century.

bharat is the official name of india. when you go to india, they will speak of bharat, meaning they call their country as bharat.

well, india came from the name of indus river, maybe it has somehow influenced by the presence of indus civilization ruins. maybe british was so awestruck by this magnificent structures, so much that they get addicted with indus so they finally called the area indus. maybe indus is much roman in name (consider the terminal -us), so they changed -us to -a, thus indus became india.

maybe because of indic culture. maybe the british, when they arrived on south asia, they met emperors that are of Indic culture, so they tend to called them India (indic, may they believed that the people call them indic since that's they're culture. )

sumit_sharma444

INDIA is the term coined by our 1st Prime Minister Jwaher Lal Nehru.It actually stands for 'Independent Nation Declared In August" i.e. INDIA as we got freedom on August 15th 1947.

Dreamzz

The English term India is from Greek "HindÃa" , via Latin India.

HindÃa denotes the region beyond the Indus river, taken from Avestan "HinduÅ¡" (referring to Sindh, and listed as a conquered territory by Darius I in the Persepolis terrace inscription).

The name is derived ultimately from "Sindhu", the Sanskrit name of the river, but also meaning "river" generically.

CA pp jain

India in english bharat in hindi

Blistering Blue Barnacles

When the Europeans discovered the land, they thought that they reached West Indies near the Americas and started calling the land Inde which later became India.

Confused boy

It's from the word Indus, from the Persian word Hindu, and is basically referring to the Indus River.

Away from Y!A

All the others have given you enough information about how the name was derived :)
But basically its the name british gave India and made it popular to the rest of the world as they were the ones who had their colonies in lots of countries around the world for a long time. And thats how the name stuck.
But the real name is Bharat.
And our story behind a real name and a more popular name wellknown to the rest of the world is not so different from Burma ( Myanmar ), China (Qin / ZhÅngguÃ³ ) or Japan (Nippon) etc.

krishnamoorthynagarajan

Originally the civilization was around the river Sind and the civilization and the people were called as Sindus which got corrupted to Hindus and the nation came to be known as India.

Summy

Because They are Indian so English change the name of the country India because they had hard time to pronounce Bharat. like they did with Banaras, Mumbai, Kolkata,
Now Indian are changing name of there states but they never think the main important is to change the name of there country like before BHARAT,
But I think all Indian who like in USA never call us India we said we are desi or Hindustani or from Bharat or sometimes Bharat.
I hope one day we will change back to Bharat.

Samir Roych

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(Deit/Deity's formation is made with soil/mud being carried by river and the water is created by GOD, the Almighty. Aryans used to worship various GODS/GODDESSES and they started their lives by the river-side. India word derived from Indus river. Different people from different parts of the world in different time came and established themselves here in India. Different people in so many ways pronounced - some Indu, some Hindu, some India from these type of pronunciation we came in conclusion - Our India has become great with the assembly of so many people of different colours, languages, wears, cultures etc. etc.

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