Why is Bhārat Called India In English?
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What is India called in your language?
Gaabagol
India (portuguese)
in Tamil, it's Intiyā
Inde
Its called Bharat in Nepali
It is interesting how the persians defined the name "India" the same way the greeks defined the name "Persia"
...Which is the same way the Romans defined the name "Greece"
What did India call thailand?
Yes
Burma/Myanmar is between India and Thailand
In Thai, Thailand is "ประเทศ ไทย" which looks like "Prathes Thiy" which also looks like "Pradesh Thai", and in India there are many "state land areas" labeled as "Pradesh"
In Sinhala, ancient India is referred to as "Dambadiva", which is derived from "Jambudveepa".
Jambudweep, the island of the citron tree. Lovely. This Sanskrit name embodies the Indian subcontinent and its distinct nature from the rest of the Asian continent.
Island of guava
@@tegarznot gauva... Jambu is a kind of blackberry Or indian plum...
@@Ronex-jv6pc yes I know, it is called duwet or jamblang in my region. Jambu in my language is water apple or rose apple, related to indian jambu, but also can be used to mention guava.
@@tegarz not possible... Guava came from South America.... It was introduced by portugese to us in 17th ce.
There's also the question of if English speakers will actually adopt the change, should it happen. If Germany insisted on being called "Deutschland", I doubt anyone would follow. It'd be the same as if Japan insisted on Nippon, or China on Zhongguo. Plenty of countries have names in their native language different from English, they just aren't used.
True. Already Turkey changed its name to Turkie but that didn't really catch on lol
@@dwarasamudra8889 Especially as it uses a character that most English speakers can't type.
All this renaming and demand to use endonyms even in foreign languages seems to me a bit racist. as been pointed out if it was Germany everyone would laugh if the demanded Deutschland usage in English but when its those "poor brown ppl" who demand all world must use they native name( like Myanmar v Burma) white liberals with white saviour/ guilt complex suddenly jump the bandwagon and change their language in a second.
@@tenacious3911 It's not hard. Since I went mad on Flamenco, with all its terms like compás, peña, soleá, toná etc. I just keep a file called Special Characters on my desktop to copy/paste from. Other stuff as well: -
á ã ç é ê í ï ó ôú ü ñ Á É Í Ó Ú Ñ ¿ ¡ £ … ⋮ √ « » Ω ™ © ℗ Degree sign ° ⸫
Swaziland tried it too.
Small correction: Bharat is not the ‘Hindi’ name, but the Vedic Sanskrit name.
Hindi is a relatively young language, and to put things into perspective on a timeline, it would be like comparing Old Latin and Modern Italian or Spanish.
LOL yeah, Hindi Hindu Hindustan, all came from persionization of India
I generally like this video creator, but this one was a bit careless.
It is the Hindi name. It comes from Sanskrit, but it is used in Hindi and many other Indo-Aryan languages.
Thanks for the info, Interesting.
@@teehee4096well in Malayalam India is called Bharatam so it's not limited to North Indian Languages
Actually, "Indië" does not refer to India. The Dutch word for India is "India". The word "Indië" is the latter part of colonized Southeast Asian regions:
Nederlands-Indië = Dutch Indies (Indonesia)
Brits-Indië = British India (India)
But it is in the Dutch spoken in Belgium.
@@alfonsmelenhorst9672, I did not know that. Then again: the clarification was necessary
Inde is probably derived from India though.
But indonesia literally means "indian islands".
@@TheBakuganmaster99, yes, but those islands used to be under Dutch rule, when they were called "Nederlands-Indië"
Pakistan has said that if India changes its name to Bharat, they will change their country's name from Pakistan to India (they used to be part of British ruled India prior to 1947) and they could capitalize on the marketing value the name India has throughout the world. So I don't think India will drop that name and go only by Bharat.
Source? Also if Pakistan names themselves India that would against everything they stood for before.
Nah that's just south Asia index report
Pakistanis tend to thrive on stealing and handouts, rather than working for anything.
Making stuff up, I mean the nation of India does have the most fake news. Either way its hilarious how the nation is named after the geographical location of the Indus river which resides in Pakistan.... Ironic being basically named after Pakistan, and it being in a sense the true India.
@@shunkanzo7766 Indus also flows in India mate. And since 300 BCE, the name India referred to large parts of the subcontinent by Megasthenes. So no, Pakistan is not the "true" India.
I am an Indian ask me...... We have lotssssss of names
1. Hindustan (Hindi (majority speaking language) -stan (place where someone lives) Also in India the major news paper sells from the name of " The Hindu News paper & Hindustan Times.
2. India The name "India" is originally derived from the name of the river Sindhu (Indus River) and has been in use in Greek since Herodotus (5th century BCE).
3. Bharat ( Because the last emperor's name was Bharat भरत comes from our most important book MAHABHARAT)
4. Aryavarta - ("Land of the Aryans", Sanskrit pronunciation: [aːrjaːˈʋərtə]) is a term for the northern Indian subcontinent in the ancient Hindu texts such as Dharmashastras and Sutras, referring to the areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Again from the most important book Mahabharata.)
5 Bharatvarsh (Bharat (you can read above) varsh meaning "age"
6. Hind
And there are even more......!
Mahabharat is not treated as history by even all hindus, stop acting like it's an academically established fact. It's a religious belief, like islam's adam or bible's moses
The word bharat didn't came from Mahabharat, infact Mahabharat came from bharat
@@justforfunlol2258sry... I accept other books as myths but mahabharat is not a complete myth.... It gives us huge inside about kingdoms around 1000 bce Or before... Most historians accept mahabharata as somewhat historically relevant....
@@justforfunlol2258it is a fact, you shouldn't keep your mind closed for any info, be open minded.
Anyways nobody cares about your personal opinion, if any random person don't believe in a historical event nobody can do anything except calling him an ideot 😂
@@aktheking9841 it's not my personal opinion, it's not academically recognized. Its your religious belief, like a Muslim talking about adam. Both of you are free to act like they are facts but they will remain without evidence. They are faith.
Hodu is mentioned in the book of Esther, which starts with King Ahasuerus (i.e. Xerxes) ruling over an empire that stretches from Hodu to Cush. The turkey is called "tarnegol Hodu" in Hebrew, which means "India chicken". (Other languages, such as French, also have similar words for turkey.) As "hodu" also means "give thanks", this gives some Jews justification for celebrating Thanksgiving and eating turkey.
Hodu metioned in bible too
Hodu means vomit in my native dhivehi language.😂😂😂 i'm sure its pronunced differently though.
This was interesting, when the spanish conquistadors saw the natives of the americas they called them "indians" thinking they were actually in India/Bharat, and that name stuck with us even to the present
orignal nat!ves who migrated to Americas thousands if years ago ... had actually migrated there via India & CH!na ... so
@@scyber_avatar
Geographically impossible. The ancestors of today's Native Americans/Amerindians migrated from Asia to the Americas via the Bering land bridge, not China nor India.
@@scyber_avatarno they didn’t. Modern day native Americans ancestors came from the Siberian region
@@dpr9921 What route did they take from Africa to the Bering strait?
Very sad, it has been known for 500 years now the Spanish didn't reach India, I can only conclude Americans use Indian as a derogatory term to describe the Native peoples as a way to continue the genocide against them, after-all, Indians make up the largest country on the planet by population but the native peoples of the Americas continue to be marginalised and mistreated and continue to be called Indian. I have no idea why that is or why it continues to happen. Maybe by calling them Indian it is a means to deny they are the rightful owners of the land but sticking them into Reservations seems like a way to keep them in a ghetto of poverty.
2:30 Not only in Hindi, In all Indian Language it is called as "Bharat"... Only in foreign language (English) it is called by foreign name "India"
Hindustaan?
Is it? I thought Bhãrat is a Hindi exonym imposed on the Dravidian states. A more neutral version would go further back to the Sanskrit original.
Edit: Other people's comments show it is more complicated than I thought. "Bhārat" is indeed a Hindi version that the Centre wants to use in English, but it seems that the name "Bhārata" originated in the South and originally may have referred to the North.
@@NRBD2Sanskrit original is used in Hindi 😑
@@priyadarshi8548I think they are referring to Jambudweepa.
@@priyadarshi8548 I very far from a Sanskrit scholar but I would have expected Bhārata because nouns rarely end in a consonant. Hindi often drops final schwa ("a") from Sanskrit words. Other Indian languages have other endings, like Bhāratām.
-- I could be wrong.
Mughals as religiously tolerent 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Comedy
Most ignorant statement, brainwashed by Sanghi illiterates. If an ”invader” family stays on in India fo 9 generations, marries into Indian families each generation, builds beautiful architectural marvels, translates all Sanskrit literature and philosophy, encourage and enrich Indian classical music, refines various schools of painting and sculpture, creates the most efficient land measurement system, encourages astronomy and indigenous medicinal systems, patronizes all religious practices, even repairs temples, are they still invaders?
I feel like calling India/ Hindustan an entirely external name is kind of misguided, as ppl of the southern Indus River, which they call Dareya-e-Sindh (the River Sindh), call themselves Sindhi, people of the Indus River. Its name changed to encompass more people over time, similar to how Europe started off as a name for peoples in the Levant but eventually encompassed what we now know as Europe.
Fair point.
See sindhi is an ethnicity and India and Hindustan, Hindu is entirely an external name bcz it's morphed and created by other the name sindhi and sindh is ours but I like if
Your name is jhon and if I started calling you yohanna is it external or internal name
i mean names change over time, China /t͡ʃaɪnə/ is a great example. During the Qing Dynasty, ppl speaking Sanskrit called it Chīn चीन (chinese q is pronounced /ɕ/ not /tʃ/). from there it spread through Persian and Arabic to European languages, and now everyone calls them China, even tho they call themselves 中國 [ʈʂʊ́ŋ.kwǒ].
It seems difficult to call China by a name that’s hard to pronounce for outsiders. Similarly, Bharat भारत is pronounced [bʱäː.ɾət̪] in Modern Standard Hindi, containing sounds most outsiders aren’t familiar with.
@@adamkh0r I am not saying that i am saying that name changing happens but by their ppl only then it's only internal name otherwise chin Or china is external name only so india is although it's based of an Indian River but we don't call it indus if we took chinas internal name and with time morphs that will not become it's internal name if China it self the inside ppl morph it than it will be like
Somone else morphing your name doesn't make that name your rather you morphing your name makes that name yours the persians morphed sindhu into hindu hence hindu is not the internal name like if the ppl inside it morps sindhu into sindus Or sindura Or even hindu then the name would be an internal name
@@adamkh0r if persians hindustan and Greek indus is an internal name then same should be for Hebrew Hodu Chinese Yindu and Japanese Indojin would also be internal name only na
But they ain't
In Constitution we mentioned Bharat as our name in local lang and India in English bcz in Latin script Bharat can't be pronounced hence to not let foreigners make fun with our name India too is our official name bcz you can see even this guy isn't able to pronounce the sound of भ bh rahather he pronounced it ब b and even he pronounced the wrong R except his pronounciation of Ta other are wrong so we not gonna make it as internal name barata how he pronounced so for outsiders we have India and for us we have Bharat, India
Small correction. The Dutch word Indië refers to the former Dutch Indies, now Indonesia. India is also called India in Dutch.
Indonesia was named after India so that's another thing.
Indonesia has been part of Indian empires (empires originating within India) multiple times in past .....like that of Chola Empire
India or similar words were collectively used for the whole of South east and south Asia because these countries have been Europe of the past....the word India was loosely an equivalent of Europe Before a large unified landmass/country adopted that name India and other terms were coined to identify the remaining area
@@ankurantil6137not exactly "part of Indian Empire" but India influenced empire, i think there some Indian Empire stretched to at least Sumatra but i'm not sure
@@ReirtoRRNTX They were briefly, under direct Chola rule and for some time under indirect rule and yes, they used to be part of a shared culture that stretched to the Philippines in a purist sense but also influenced China, Japan, and Korea on the eastern front. And it would not be right to call it India-influenced culture because ideas flowed both ways. So we have a shared ownership over dharmic culture which we were able to preserve more of compared to other countries.
@@sunnychoudhary3288 Yep true
Interestingly "barat" in indonesian language means "west" and india is indeed geographically west of indonesia.
But the name change could have some awkward consequences, for example when we previously referred to western movies as "film barat" it would now means indian movies? lol
Also another interesting part: the word “barat” in Indonesian was not originated from sanskrit or referred to the land of India (like ones might expect). But it was originated from a totally unrelated proto-malayo-polynesian word, habarat, which referred to southwest monsoon wind.
@shandya so this is where filipinos get "habagat" from
if india renames itself to bharat, filipino racism towards india is going to have a field day. Barat in tagalog means "stingy"
The opposite of barat is timur. Timor is so called because it's east of some other islands. So Timor Timur is East East. (It's Timor-Leste in Portuguese and Timor Lorosa'e in Tetum, which account for the code TL.)
@@pierreabbat6157 yes, “East East” is really interesting indeed. And “Timur” also originated from a proto-malayo-polynesian word referring to the east monsoon wind.
@@shandyathis is interesting, what about north and south? are they similar to country names?
Of course, any country has the right to rename itself, however this could lead to lots of confusion:
1. India becomes Bharat.
2. To troll their beloved neighbours, Pakistan lays claim to the name India (since it's actually on the Indus river) and renames itself, too.
3. Now that the name Pakistan is unoccupied, it gets claimed by Bangladesh (which once used to be called East Pakistan).
Imagine India vs Bharat at the next cricket world cup.
Tbh this would never happen. 2 and 3 are literally impossible.
Let's clarify this: any country has the right to rename itself *in its own language*. They might have a right to veto exonyms that are insulting or politically contentious, but otherwise, let others use what fits their own tongues best.
I would love to see this happen lol
Bangladesh would never lay claim to the name Pakistan lmao
The Bharatha were a Vedic Aryan tribe within the north indian state known as the Aryavart (Land of Aryans). After the battle of the 10 kings the Bharatha aryan tribe came to dominate. Overtime the whole of the Indian subcontinent came to be known as Bharat.
Yeah
Source?
@@fattiesunite2288scroll down to the bharat section.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_India#Bh%C4%81rata
The tribe:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatas_(tribe)
@@fattiesunite2288 Wikipedia
@@based4560 same wikipedia that has an edit button righttttt
I find it interesting (although I don’t know if there’s a relation), that in Arabic ‘bharat’ means spice, and in Malay (and I think even in Bahasa Indonesia) ‘bharat’ means west (which is the direction of India from them).
That's interesting. Yes it does mean spices in Arabic. Perhaps it came from Indian traders using the word Bharat for their country and so Arabs used that word for spices as it was the main source. Or a coincidence.
Not true. Arabic has no such notion. All propaganda.
A little correction about Jambudvipa. Although Dvipa is sanskrit for Island, it also meant continent due to the fact that there are other Dvipas mentioned in the Hindu Geography that are not islands either. Having said that India can be considered to be an island in the sense that the geography is such that its is surrounded by water all around-ocean to the south, indus to the west, Ganges to the north and Bramhaputra to the east meaning all borders of ancient India might have been WATER which would technically make it an Island. Also Jambu might have been related to the approximate understood shape rather than the fuit itself but could well be either or both.
Saying Mughal empire was religiously tolerant, is same as saying Colonial powers were peaceful towards Native American Tribes or Hitler being tolerant to Jews.
Eminently historical. 🥲
That's not correct. They were obviosly not following our modern ideas of religious freedom, but compared to similar empires they were more religiously tolerant than one would expect.
Are you sure about that? Because goung by your juxtaposition there should have been no hindus left in india but of course its not the case and you people are still the majority of the country. Maybe if you take your head out of the propagandist tv channels and whatsapp forwards, you might be able to at least put a fair argument.
Keeping up with my previous comment, check some religious wise stats of india's population which says hindus make upto 80% population of india, so either you comment is true and you guys just breed like rabbits to make such a large proportion of the population or its completely false. Which one is it?
@@bluebitproductions2836clearly you've neither read babarnama nor aaine e akbari nor fatwa e Alamgiri, all biographies written by their own court writers. Read and let us know what is tolerant about it.
Korea also has three names, and all are indigenous: Hanguk (in the South), Joseon (the North), and variations on Korea in most of the rest of the world. They've all been used locally to denote the land. Evidently, Korea is the oldest, and that is what stuck abroad. Let the locals argue about the newer forms.
The historical name of Korea is Goryeo.
Outsiders couldn't pronounce Goryeo and thus called it Korea.
saying "during M0gal Empire there was amazing rel!gi0us t0lerance" ... is like saying "during H!tler's rule there was amazing peace in Eur0pe" 🤦♂🤦♂
what were you sm0king while researching this particular information huh ?
And if you point out this hypocrisy, they just call it Hindu Nationalist propaganda 😂
And what did you want him to say? Most ignorant statement, brainwashed by Sanghi illiterates. If an ”invader” family stays on in India fo 9 generations, marries into Indian families each generation, builds beautiful architectural marvels, translates all Sanskrit literature and philosophy, encourage and enrich Indian classical music, refines various schools of painting and sculpture, creates the most efficient land measurement system, encourages astronomy and indigenous medicinal systems, patronizes all religious practices, even repairs temples, and sky rockets the economy on the too are they still invaders?
That was a stretch ngl
@@fattiesunite2288no need to get offended
Ayodhya Kashi Mathura 3 holiest site in Hinduism all were demolished
That's just a fact
Truly western education system moment
One always learns something new every day. Never heard of the terms "exonym" and "endonym" before. Another example of those is Finland and Suomi.
I often wonder if Suomi is in any way related to the English word 'swamp', given that the 'Fin' bit of Finland is a slight corruption of the English word 'fen'. I always spell the family of languages to which Finnish belongs intentionally as 'Fenno-Ugrian' to spell that out!
@@christopherbentley7289nope, not related at all. Btw if you have questions about etymology you can look them up
@@christopherbentley7289 Swedish and English are related ("Finland" being the Swedish name), Finnish and English aren't related at all. In fact English is more closely related to Hindi than it is to Finnish.
@@tenacious3911 I take that totally on board, but there is still some 'osmosis' that goes on between the Indo-European and Fenno-Ugrian languages in terms of vocabulary. So, it isn't out of the question.
The so-called "Gypsies" (an English exonym) of Andalusia are within Spain (English exonym) or España (their endonym) are generally known by the endonym Calé, or the exonym Gitanos. :-)
I feel like removing the name would be a mistake, India is one of the most famous countries in the world and the association is with a people, a culture, a food and many other things. It is generally used in positive or neutral ways and it’s origins aren’t of an offensive nature but just a geographical feature. I think introducing this as an alternate name is definitely a good idea but universally removing it’s almost universally known name, may cause some backlash or confusion (at least in the short term )
Indian government is not removing the name 'india' instead government wants to promote our 2nd official Name "Bharat" more often.
@@durgeshn8791 22 name hai officially india ke. Government sirf opposition ke liya karri hai or kuch nahi.
The origin of the word BHARAT, itself come from the SOUTH INDIA !
In Sangam literature, dating from approximately the 3rd century BCE contains references to Bharat in the form of "பாரதம்" (Pāraṭam) or "பாரதம் நாடு" (Pāraṭam Nāṭu), which can be translated as "the land of Bharat" or "the land of the Bharata people." These references often allude to the northern regions of the subcontinent.
Not to mention Ancient Hindu epics like the Mahabharata !
It's nothing like South India, it was a country of Sanatan Dharma and Bharat was a Sanatani King so saying it as just South India is pretty narcissistic
It was a term brought by Jain monks who shifted South. Not a Dravidian word
@@iqbal259 it is always one "Iqbal" who has a problem with anything pertaining to the ancient civilizational Conciousness of this nation
@@theriam6281 yes, one Iqbal always has a problem with half baked lies, one 'Iqbal' who wrote Saare Jaha Se Acha Hindustan humara too. So shut your bhakta ass if all you want to bring is personal bias.
@@theriam6281😂😂
India : Brand 👍
Bharat : Emotion ❤
Kuch bhi. That emotion for most people is indifference. Naming a country after a king who died long ago is pathetic.
@@_A.t.g bharat means enlightenment or knowledge. Chutiye.
My father calls it Bharat in normal conversation, but only calls India when there is cricket or football matches are played
I'm Thai and as you know we use a lot of Sanskrit loan words. We also has called India as "Jambudvipa" too, or in our tongue "Chomputweep". And those words are understandable to us. Tweep or Dvipa in our modern Thai word is used as a common noun for the meaning of the continent. And the Chompu or Jambu is the name of a kind of budding tree. (Also currently use commonly in the modern Thai noun for the pink color) So maybe it's not directly translated as the blossoming tree island but the tree's land.
Jambu is Jamun I guess. It is a sweet fruit. Google it. It was used to make purple, violet and pink dyes in Ancient India. Do you have that fruit in Thailand?? What is it called??
When i was a kid, it always confused me that the people of the country of India was the same as the Indians in America. I ended up calling the people from India as Indish, so that the Indians were more known as American Indians. Of course, that was before the "Native American" and "indigenous people" terms were used. Seems Indian may not have been correct for either, although it has been popular for many years.....lol
Indian River -> Sindhu
Persian Slang -> Hindu
Greek Mis-approprated word -> Indoi
English Word -> India
Native Indian word for our Nation : Bhaarat, The Land named after our Legendary Hindu Emperor Bharat (Indian equivalent of King Arthur), Who united 10 Kingdoms and ruled over it. Bhaarat is supposed to have lived sometime before 3300 B.C btw..
@@hindurashtra63 and what your legendary king name's means? Like Japan comes from Nihon and it means Land of Sun 日 (Ni) rise 本 (hon). Or China just Zhong 中 (Middle) Guo 国 (Kingdom). Is Bharat a meaningful name or it's just gibberish sound comes from the king's parents?
@@karaqakkzlBharata refers to Agni, the god of fire.
@@sewerrat
Also it was land of spiritual seekers 😊
Bharat, a Sanskrit word, literally translates into - 'to bear/ to carry' and means 'one who is in search of light/ knowledge'. India has been historically known as Bharat, which means 'one in search of light/ knowledge'."
Light of knowledge removes darkness of ignorance
😢
The usual explanation is Christopher Columbus mistook the native Americans for Indians because he thought he had reached Asia. That's because he miscalculated the size of the earth and didn't know America was there. He was trying to establish a trade route with East Asia by travelling westward. Don't know if that's really the origin. Yes, they did know, contrary to what many believe, the earth is round.
According to Vishnu Purana
उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् ।
वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र संततिः ।।
(Uttaraṃ yatsamudrasya himādreścaiva dakṣiṇam
varṣaṃ tadbhārataṃ nāma bhāratī yatra santatiḥ)
This shloka means: “The country (Varsam) that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bharatam; there dwell the descendants of Bharata.
The so-called Vishnu Purna is a British era concoction. As there was no knowledge of detailed geography before them.
@@hawkingdawking4572 Are you serious? Vishnu Purana dates back to the 1st millennium BCE.
@@MudithV There is no evidence for Vishnu Purana being 1000 BCE old. As usual, these are typical history stretching exercises done by Hindus. The current Vishnu Purana popped up in the late Midieval times and it had undergone several revisions, reforms and additions suited to the day and age. The Vishnu Purana could be based on old oral stories and myths but the details are sketchy. There are no manuscripts of any proto-Hindu type text earlier than 14th century in India.
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Man I laughed so hard when you said mughals had great religious tolerance 😂😂
I once asked three Indians what they call india and started a war at dinnertime
So I know most Indians are multilingual. For the Indians who speak both Hindi and English (and likely their state language too like Urdu, Telugu, etc.), do they use the names interchangeably? Do they call it India when speaking English and Bhārat when speaking Hindi, or do they generally just use one name to simplify things? And what about those local state languages? Can any Indians/Bhāratians let us know?
It's very interchangeable. People generally say both. Perhaps in a more formal setting, especially in newschannels, speeches, or formal writing Bharata is used, whereas in a more casual setting, and settings where English is dominant, the term India is used. Nobody uses the term Jambudvipa anymore and Hindusthan is more likely to be used by speakers of Hindi/Urdu or Muslims but even this term is kinda falling off.
@@dwarasamudra8889 Hindustan is still very widely used in movies, shows, news media and songs also popularize it. Companies like HCL (Hindustan Corporation limited and Hindustan Petroleum) also exist. It's not fading out anytime soon.
Almost all local state languages use a variation of Bharat
Yes India and Bharat are used interchangeably
I am from south india. In telugu, its called bharatam. So we use both names interchangeably. However, i dont think hindustan is very popular in the south.
FYR, the people of Bharat are known as Bharatiya, not Bharatians.
Is there word industry (and its deivied words like indistrialisation) derived from the Indus river?
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We Are Brothers 🇮🇱 🇮🇳
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you would, two lying racists
No you dont
Thank you
Respect for Israel ❤
Longlive Israel - Bharat relation 🎉
Ive actually been wondering about this lately
it's not mythology ( ramayana & mahabharata) it's our ithihas (as it happened)
"Mythology" is the wrong word, clearly. These are better described as "epics" - even "historical epics", much like the Homeric tales of Greece that also seem to have a basis in historical fact.
But for most readers nowadays, there is no mistaking the presence of a lot of at least legendary material in them as well as some clearly "mythical"/"religious" elements.
Jambudvipa actually is the Sanskrit translation of the Tamil word that means the same. Also it’s highly unlikely that the govt will change the name. It might be only to bring up the use of Bharat more in English. Constitution gives right to both the names in all languages, not this in English and that in Hindi or something
not everything is from tamil. You tamil guys must stop with this chauvinism
Jambudvipa means the continent of India.....
Guava land?
@@fajaradi1223Land of jamuns
I barely remember that city being called Bombay, as I've remembered it being called Mumbai all my life. Didn't the change happen during the 1990s?
Also, wasn't Sri Lanka once called Ceylon during the 1960s?
...and it was the Hindu fundamentalists who clamoured for the name change of Bombay to Mumbai in the 1990s, a related group to the BJP known as the RSS.
@@aasifazimabadi786actually it was renameby shiv sena because bombay word consider british colonial legacy.
@@aasifazimabadi786Just like Muslim fundamentalists removed names of many historical places in the region known as Pakistan since 1947.
Talk of blind spots!
You are correct. It was the Shiv Sena. @@runajain5773
You questioned my Indianness because I'm not a Hindu. There's not a lot of weight to what you say. Perhaps I'm wrong, but you're just a pro-Hindutva troll.@@nathanoyeght
in Dutch we don't call it Indië (indi-uh. The ë isn't an umlaut but a trema, indicating diaeresis like in French).
Indië is more used how in English 'Indies' is used.
We call it India too.
-Stan or -Sthan स्थान in Sanskrit means place or region or station or dwelling or abode
It can also mean Position
Not Sanskrit but Avestan or older Persian. Sanskrit is an early Middle ages' language and fairly new one
@@hawkingdawking4572 False, Sanskrit predates both the languages you mentioned. 'Stan' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Sthan' for 'place or land' of somebody.
@@MudithV Sanskrit became Sanskrit when the Avestan language migrated to Indian regions. Sanskrit is the Indianised Old Iranian language.
2:25 bh is a bassy airy version of b in bharat(bhā rut t is softer like how u taco
In Spanish)
Just like dh in Buddha ,gandhi
Gh in ghee
It would be great, if you could do a video about Arminius, the chieftain of the Cherusci tribe, who won in the Teutoburg Forest against the Romans (Varusschlacht). He also is known und the name Hermann the Cheruscan and he has a great statue of him.
Mitten in den Neunzigen arbeitete ich als Praktikant bei einer Ausgrabung in Osnabrück, währenddessen ich die Ausgrabungen in Kalkriese besuchte (an der aktuellen Jahreszeit). Ich weiß nicht, wie so ein Thema bei „Name Explain“ laufen würde, aber...
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!
The name will forever remain India and Indian for me as an Indian. Bharat is our native name but internationally India is too iconic to be replaced
I’m so glad you’re finally starting to get set up where we will use the actual native names for countries. It’s so much more interesting to me.
No new videos this week? What happened?
Mughals: Didn’t use “India”.
This guy: Removal of “India” is removal of Mughals.
YE NO RELATION NO LOGIC.. JABARDASTI KA MUSLIM
Bharat is the name of my Country. The "Vishnu Puran" one of the 18 major Purans defines the country as the one which is between the Himalaya in the North and the Samudra (Ocean) in the South and between the Sindhu (Indus) in the West and the Brahmaputra in the East.
It’s called India (or something very similar) in just about all languages.
Apart from the 3 names there is also a 4th name which is very famous and it is 'Hind'. This name is used in central Asia and the Arabic countries as well as in the country itself.
HINDU NATIONALIST BOTS ON THEIR WAY TO THE COMMENTS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So India means 'the land of the river', and Hinduism means 'the ideas of the river'.
If not Bharat, better call it Gangesia, most of Indus in Pakistan and most of Ganges in India
@@karaqakkzlor gangestan
Hinduism is actually called Sanatan Dharma. Which means the eternal religion.
India means land beyond the indus
@@karaqakkzlbut the Ganges doesn't cover most of India. Maybe 35-40% at most.
I'm 70 year old American. I have called India, India for the better part of a century. I'll be happy to call India whatever name India wishes. But I will slip up occasionally because I am old.
You had me at Mahabharata ♥♥
Great video, my take on the politics is that just because India is considering changing its own endonym references, it's government has no authority over the exonyms that foreign countries use for it. Alot of people - including expat Indians - still use the exonym Bombay, for the endonym called Mumbai, for example.
What are you trying to say? Turkey changed it's name recently and everyone followed suit and now it's Turkiye. It doesn't matter what expats says but I've never heard an Indian say Bombay unless they are speaking to the ignorant 😊
@@urmwhynot 'Everyone'? I'm in the middle of publishing a book in which Turkey is called Turkey, and by large all of the papers call it Turkey. Not everyone has changed to calling Kiev by Kyiv, many people still don't call it Ukraine but instead call it The Ukraine, Just because you haven't heard any Indians still referring to Bombay, merely means that you are in a different circle, but the point is, many still do, and fundamentally no country has control over its exonyms, just its endonyms. What is extroadinmary is that you have come out against my comment, and yet a whole range of countries are happy having different endonyms to their exonyms, such as Finland (Suomi), Germany (Deutchland), etc. It all comes down to jurisdiction, countries have jurisdiction over their endonyms but not their exonyms.
@anthonyharrison486 Doesn't matter what foreigners call Indian cities or regions. We know they won't be able to pronounce them anyway. If Bharata becomes the sole name of India, it probably won't catch on true. But no young person in India or around the world is still saying Bombay, Madras, Calcutta etc. Only old people have that habit, and gradually those names will be forgotten.
@@dwarasamudra8889 You're a naive idiot, someone tells you an observation and you say it wasn't observed. Indians proudly create their own endonyms, meanwhile the rest of the world chooses their own endonyms. It's simple fact. Try turning your light on.
@@urmwhynot absolutely no one uses türkiye lol, it's always gonna be Turkey everywhere that's not an official document
Each place or country has different names at some point in time. So if we have to follow such route, we will spend the rest of our lives changing everything.
This is just happening because the opposition collision decided to name themselves I.N.D.I.A
While the rest of the Worlds Nations strive to retain and in many cases revert to their original Native Names, Cultural and Religious Practices etc. (eg. Islamic and Christian Countries), Bharat as a sovereign state also has the right to revert to their Ancestral Past as their BIRTH RIGHT. .
Dhanyavaad Narendra Modi Jee 🙏 . . . Jai Sri Raam🕉 . . . Jai Bharat🇮🇳
I've seen another name used to commonly to mean Indian. Not sure of correct spelling but looks something like "dessie". How does that name feature in this topic?
'Desi' is a informal denonym used for North Indians
Des/Desh means land/country.
Like Bangladesh - Land of Bengalis.
Swades - My country/land, Pardes - Foreign country/land (both are names of Bollywood movies)
Desi is the adjective which means of/belonging to that land (or something local) in contrast with videshi (of foriegn origin)
Sri Lankans use the word Dhesiya to mean anything local (which is south of South India), so not sure if there is any north Indian connotation to this word
Correction: India was called as Bharat not just in Hindi but in all official languages of Bharat.
The explanation of India is almost accurate but not quite so, but the explanation of Bharat is completely wrong, as expected.
The funniest part in this video is when he says Bharat comes from Hindi, but Jambudvipa came from Sanskrit. Bharat also came from Sanskrit and its origin older than Jambudvipa.
and the "Mughals had amazing religious tolerance" is as true as "Nazis loved Jews and Gypsies", learn the history dumb dumbs.
Please people if you want to know the true origins of countries name, please hear explanation from people of that country.
Search of Sanjeev Sanyal explanation of name Bharat in UA-cam for more accurate reasoning and logic behind the name.
Thank you for the explanation! I just watched Sanjeev Sanyal’s video and I learned a lot. I just started learning देवनागरी and हिन्दी now, so I agree that it’s important that I learn about history from the people of the country.
Bharat also includes Pakistan. By making such statements, these politicians are claiming authority over all the land of Pakistan too! Are they intending to invade?
You will come to know in the Future
There is a reason South Asia is called Indian Subcontinent
That doesn't mean they are claiming Pakistan
pakisthan is lost cause, invading it is of litreally no use, what benefits will it give it to india? prosperity? universities?anything special that is unique to it?
Same logic with "Germany/Deutschland". It may technically also include Austria and Luxembourg but they're not part of the governed territories. Does Germany plan to invade them according to your logic?
Same for the "United States of America". If you didn't know already, America includes Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and many other nations. Does USA plan to invade both continents?
Bharat sounds nice. It’s better than a name given to us by the Europeans
I disagree. India is far too iconic to be replaced
India is was better
@@deusmachinima1189 India name has no meaning just because it is easier to pronounce does mean that the other name is less meaning Bharat logical meaning is bha(weight)rat(chariot) weight on chariot.
The origin of the name Bharat भारत is a little older than that.
Bharat भारत which comes from Bharata, the King who was the son of Rishabhadeva.
At 5:38, the image you used to show a man holding a deer/fawn is about this Bharata who was the son of Rishabadeva. Bharata here builds an attachment with that deer.
Many people also say it’s the Bharat son of Dushyant and Shakuntala after who the country was named.
This king Bharat happens to be the ancestor of Kauravas and Pandavas.
Mughal were so secular so generous that other religion believer would have to pay tax to be in their religion and they were not allowed to build their place of worship an inch taller than the nearest mosque.
Read and then speak in your videos
It’s interesting that the name India is an exonym, but if you go back far enough (aka, to the time the locals were telling that Greek explorer what their river is called), is actually an endonym
how?
Illogical
@@islandsunsetAn ethnic group that lives along the river in Pakistan still calls themselves Sindhi, which comes from the Sanskrit word for "river". The same etymology as India. Clearly a version of the name India was an endonym at some point, but maybe not one that's very applicable to modern India.
@@isaacbruner65 I get what you are trying to say but no version of India was endonym at that time.
India came from Sindhu by which our civilization started. So yes, India is a very corrupt form of Sindhu. By that logic I can say it is an endonym. But no people in ancient India identified themselves by the river. The Indus valley script might change this belief. For Sindhi people I can say that it is a modern identifier. Sindhi language is a modern Indo Aryan Language which came from a language that was called Apabrahamsa. Maybe it is a 1000 year old language (best guess) but by that time India came to identify itself by the river and the name stuck because of foreign travellers. My above explanation was for ancient times.
The Bharat word also means which carries or bear Agni(Fire) or will of Fire and search of knowledge that's why it was called bharatvarshA or Aryavarta and Bharat name is given by legendary king barat chakravorthy one of the most powerful anf greatest king of all time in way before ancient india of Mahabharata Sanskrit Epics
Looking forward to going down to the local Bharat Restaurant and having a BPA.
In ancient times, india was once known as Abyssinia, which was East Ethiopia. Two Ethiopias one west of red sea ,one east which is India. 😊
Do you have a source for that?
Well, That's because the Europeans combined the Maps of Asia and Africa together. Most people though of Asia as a Mysterious Land east of Libya or Persia till Alexander invaded India.
India has no relation to Ethiopia whatsoever.
"@SJking-gk4go
1 day ago
In ancient times, india was once known as Abyssinia, which was East Ethiopia. Two Ethiopias one west of red sea ,one east which is India. 😊"
Uh, no it was never known as that.
@@martinvanburen4578 hey ..
I think you didn't learn about your country..or is it being hidden.
How can you convince me or the world. Shame...tch tch.
Turning to ancient roots is something that all nation states go through when nationalism takes a strong hold. It's been happening in the Balkans, it happened in Africa and it seems to be happening now in India.
In India, it is the revival of Indian civilizational consciousness and intensification of the mental decolonisation. That's all. It's a natural outcome of the discourse in India these days. Nothing negative.
@@RR-pc7yv Speaking from a Greek perspective, it's what's holding the country back. Tourism definitely benefits from that, but there is no innovation. And no critical view of history.
I sincerely hope India fares better.
@@makouras What do you mean by 'holding the country back'? Are you saying this for India? How and on what basis you've come to conclude that India is not progressing? 🤨😕
No body is changing the name of India. The Govt is just promoting the use of the other name which is Bharat. It is already written in the Article-1 of the Indian Constitution. This is nothing but just a social media rumour that India is changing its name to Bharat and dropping 'India', which is just pure BS.
@@RR-pc7yv probably my bad for not phrasing it right, but I'm talking about Greece. Turning to ancient roots is what's keeping Greece back.
@@makouras Ahh, ancient Greece still fascinates the whole world. It's good for tourism industry in Greece but how is it holding back Greece? What do you mean by critical view of Greek history in Greece? As far as I know, the modern Greeks are very very different from the Ancient Greeks when it comes almost all of the aspects. Like socio-culture, language differences,etc. And when Greeks fought against Ottomans for their freedom, they didn't gave a damn about the Ancient Greece and lacked consciousness for their ancient history. The primary factor was Orthodox Christianity, their shared Greek language and culture + their sufferings at the hands of the oppressive Sunni Isl@m!c Ottoman Turks,etc.
If you see all our Govt offices and buildings it’s says name board written “Bharat Sarkar “ means Govt Of India.
Ie. Bharat Sarkar Akashvani
7:52 Funnily enough, India was indeed an island (or more accurately a subcontinent) until it collided with Eurasia around 55 million years ago.
I am from the North East of the country, I don't think the majority of us would be OK to be formally Identified as being from Bharat, I think most of us are absolutely OK with Hindi speaking people or anyone from the mainland to use the word Bharat to mean India but to change it, I don't think it is fair.
the current way of naming is absolutely perfect "India that is Bharat/Bharat that is India.".
Before 1970s, Not just North East India but the Entire South East Asian region was called "Indo - China", Do you know why ? It was home to Indian Culture. Indian Clture had extended as far as Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The Naga Tribes are mentioned in Ancient HIndu Scriptures as Great Warriors who worship the Serpent Dieties, Hene the Sanskrit name Naga. Arunachal Pradesh is called - Bheeshmaka, One of Ancient Kingdoms in Bhaarat which fought on the side of Pandavas in the Mahabhaarat War. Bangladesh was called Vanga, The Kingdom ruled by the famou King - Karna. These are all Histprical Facts but overtime, Foreign Invasions, Migrations from China and Tibet, Wiped out traces of our History.
Today, We think of North Idnians as Outsiders or Migrants from Myanmar and China, This is not entirely the case. They are mixed race of Ancient Indians and the Latter, Just like how North Indians are also Mixed with Afghans, Turks and Arabs and so are South Indians who are mixed with African Traders and Oceanic Tribals. Example : Shiva worshipping South Indian HIndus have similartiies with Totem Pole worshipping Tribes of Mauri in New Zealand.
As an Indian Muslim, I also prefer retaining the name India. India is way more inclusive and promotes more harmony between people of different cultures and religions.
@@hindurashtra63 The name India will remain only
@@hindurashtra63 The name India will remain only
@@aasifazimabadi786as a Hindu I want the name Bharat as it is indigenous and has a history. India is diverse and secular because Hindus are in majority so we should respect the indigenous religion of the land .Muslims are outsiders who invaded India so we shouldn't really care about what they feel because they oppose anything not confirming to their dogmas.
Please don't refer to the Mughal Empire as a period of amazing religious tolerance. Apart from the reign of Emperor Akbar and Jahangir, the Mughal period was a time of religious persecution on the native Dharmic people with the forceful imposition of the foreign religion Islam, foreign language Persian, foreign Persian architecture etc. The Mughals, just like the British, were colonisers who had no intention in integrating into native Indian Dharmik societies. They destroyed many of India's most sacred temples and even changed the names of the holiest cities. For example, Varanasi was renamed Muhammadabad, Mathura became Islamabad, Nashik was named Gulshanabad, Prayaga was named Allahabad etc
Bro Mathura was called Islamabad?
Hindu nationalist propaganda 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They were Turko-Mongol not Pesian
@based4560 yes Aurangzeb renamed both Varanasi and Mathura and other cities. None of them stuck though
@@magma9000He changed the name of Mathura when he destroyed the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Temple aka the Keshav Rai Temple. It was one of the biggest and most important temples of India, it was as important for Hindus and Mecca is for Muslims or Vatican is for Christians. He changed the name of Varanasi when he destroyed the Shri Vishveshwara (Vishwanath) and Bindhu Madhav Temples of Varanasi, also extremely grand and sacred temples. On these sites, he built the Mathura Shahi Idgah, the Gyanvapi Mosque and the Alamgiri Mosque.
Thanks for showing the right map dude.
Meanwhile the Philippines does not have an Endonym or does it?
I don't like countries trying to change their names in other languages. Every language has a different name for every country so you can't force people to use different names.
That's true but the logic is somewhat inaccurate. In the same fashion, India can say that they don't like names attached with its colonial history or non-nativity and would like to discontinue its usage. It's like how bullies same you shitty nicknames in school, and not by your real name, and now you want them to stop calling him. Though I agree that India shouldn't drop the exonym for other reasons.
@@abhishekdasgupta9239 Are you insulting the name India? It is older than Britain as a whole historically just because you have this stigma doesn't mean the name will be changed. It's iconic
@deusmachinima1189 I tried giving an analogy to the situation he described in his comment, and by no means it's insulting the name of India. Technically, the name India is just all too simplistic in definition, but it became the identity of the land in modern times. Its upto the citizens of India to choose which name they wanna keep, and no foreign opinion shall dictate what India/Bharat wishes to change.
You can try. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. If you have good arguments, it usually works.
@@deusmachinima1189ahhh its citizen's right to choose what they want to call their nation isnt it? we speak english only formally and not in our day to day life, most of our native languages use term Bharat for it, our national anthem uses Bharat, the goddess who personifies our country is Bharat. Our constitution starts with 'india that is bharat'. (Bharat was used in older times too, Indonesian language 'bhasa' which has heavy indian influnce uses 'bharat' to indicate 'west'
I lost it when he said the mughal empire was a time of great religious tolerance 😹😹😹
Calling Mughal empire religiously tolerant is hilarious
While Akbar was tolerant of non muslims, other mughal rulers had state religion and discriminatory policies against non muslims. Aurangzeb committed genocide and punished non muslim religious leaders
Update 05-Oct-2023: The name isn't changed. the special session was mostly about the women's reservation bill which will reserve 33% of parliament seats to women hoping to increase women's participation in parliament. The bill will take affect after Census and Delimitation (Increasing parliament seat in proportion to the overall population). on the matter of changing name....it is pretty much confirmed that the name india is not going away. we still called both India and Bharat.
If you are reading this in the future.....hey man what's up how have things been?
Things are always the same as it always have been
Shiity mindset of people.
Full of chaos
The country of snakes living among people
If you had done your research, ypu would've known that an indian cabinet minister has already rubbished those claims of replacement of India by Bharat.
Officially and even in legal documents both names are mentioned, one in English - india and one in Hindi - bharat, side by side.
The Indian government is already empowered to use Bharat in its official work aside from legal documents since independence so this whole 'new' change is not new at all.
Further more, you are relying on rumours reported by news outlets and treating them as assertions wrt to the 'special session ' No basis
in facts. Quite surprising coming from you.
But why the invitation and references to Bharat in English communications?
@@jl63023 Modi's agenda.
@@jl63023 Modi's agenda.
@@deusmachinima1189 : *What and Why* ?..
The older name (before Bharat) is actually jambudweep. Used by Ashok.
In javanese kaladi inscription 906 CE wrote
People of ariya dravidian pandhya Kling shinghala, Khmer Mon cham and hunjeman (Arab Persia Rom) are foreigners who must pay foreigners tax as workers or traders.
In another inscription said there's many Brahmans from jambudwipa
Love from India 💯💞🙏🇮🇳
Will always be "Hindustan" to me.
Ok
That's my favourite name for India too: Hindustan.
ہندوستان / हिंदुस्तान
Mughal Empire and religious tolerance😂😂😂😂😂😂
I knew someone who named his son Bharat, and I understand there are regional accents, but he pronounced it much different than the narrator.
It sounded like Burrat, except the R was rolled and the second vowel was not fully pronounced.
Jambuvipa is not just India, but more like the name for the whole world that humans resides (as opposed to puravideha, aparagodaniya or uttarakuru)
Bharat is spices in arabic, I think that's interesting since it's the origin of spices
Assalam Alaykum. That is interesting, Ayoub, but that's not where the word comes from. Bahārāt actually comes from a Farsi word bahārبهار, meaning spring. Unfortunately, the sound that represents "bh" is not in Arabic (it's not in Farsi either, and it's actually found in most languages outside the Indian subcontinent), further adding to this confusion.
This is bahar in Hindi: बहार. B is represented by ब
This is Bharat in Hindi: भारत. Bh is represented by भ.
For the Muslims of South Asia, we actually had to invent a new letter (technically digraph, but it's basically a letter) to represent this sound in the Urdu language, where we combine the ب and ھ.
If you're wondering where Bhārat comes from, it's actually Hindu mythology - the name of a fictional family who fought great war in this epic called the "Māhābhārat." In Urdu, the name ہندوستان Hindustan was preferred. This is related to Al-Hind الهند. These names come from the Indus River, Hindustan literally meaning "land of the Indus River." Unfortunately, there is a political element to all this. A Hindu fundamentalist party wants to impose its ideology, and so they use this mythological reference. I wish it was about spices, but it's not. They even destroyed a famous masjid (the Babri masjid) in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh in the 90s because of this craze for mythology. I would rather the name India be retained, because I am from India's Muslim minority, and I find India to be a more inclusive name. Well, it was nice talking to you.
FYR, Ayodhya is relevant in Ramayana, not Mahabharata. The very fact you don't know the distinction while you call yourself from Indian Subcontinent shows your disgust and disdain to the non-Islamic history of the land. Imagine non-muslim Arabs calling stories of Mecca and Medina as mythology.
In comparison, people from South-east Asia still incorporate elements of Ramayana and Mahabharata in their art, history, literature and place names (Ayutthaya in Thailand, for example).
There is a debate in linguistics where the name for Spices in Arabic is due to Bharat (name of the country of origin) or due to sea-trade product (I believe Al-Bahr mean sea in Arabic).
It is definite, that Spring (Bahaar) is not one of the origination words, unlike what Mr Azimabadi thinks
@nathanoyeght5958 Hey, Islamophobe! My mother was born in 1963 in Ara. I have the birth certificate from the Government of Bihar. My father was born in 1947 in Patna. Muslims are just as Indian as Hindus that are born in India. The BJP bastards are bulldozing Muslims' houses in the present in Haryana and U.P. Islamophobia is a very real problem in the present in India.
@@nathanoyeghtBefore you delete it, I want it documented for the record that you said "The very fact you don't know the distinction while you call yourself from Indian Subcontinent shows your disgust and disdain to the non-Islamic history of the land. Imagine non-muslim Arabs calling stories of Mecca and Medina as mythology." You cannot question my Indianness because I am not a Hindu, or I will call you an Islamophobe, Nathan.
Sounds like the politics of distraction to me: instead of working to solve actual problems, "look everybody! National pride!!"
And the colonial name of the DRC was "Belgian Congo" (not Zaire), and boy do I understand why they got rid of that...
why assume "solving or practical problems" not happening ..
why both things .. or all things can't happen simultaneously in parallel .. why your mind automatically thinkgs it should be either or
@@scyber_avatar Want some advice? Go to a community college and take a damn English 101 class.😠
Exactly. Nerendra modi is only doing this for votes
Just to be clear, The Mughals in their 250-300 years of actual rule, had no period of religious tolerance whatsoever.
Rulers like akbar did tolerate other religions.
@@Cyclonixsmodi=akbar= hypocrite 😂
Did they change the name of Taj Mahal?
The other day someone online insisted to me that India and the Indus River had nothing to do with each other and that there was no such thing as the Indus River anyway. I guess he didn't like having it pointed out that the Indus River lies entirely within Pakistan.
So what? It flows from India, if we build a dam on Indus river whole Pakistan will submerge.
Indus originates in Tibet, passes through India into Pakistan. So your point is moot and the gentleman who told you that Indus doesnt exist is a massive fool
Well, India WAS an island for quite a long while, before it finally smashed into Eurasia.
You could say that for a lot of places, what's your point
I think he got the translation wrong. Dvipa does mean island but in this context, I think it means continent.
And it was united with Madagascar, Australia, Antarctica and African before that, so the point is null
Island/Isle - Dweepa
Continent - Mahadweepa (Mega Island)
Usage and meaning of Dweepa is not straightforward
In French, it's pronounced more like English "And" -- L'Inde -- in IPA /ẽnd/
Bharat is a Historical figure not a mythological one!
Historical India was mostly modern day Pakistan. When the Mughals and British ruled over the entire subcontinent, they called the whole place India. Then when they left, the areas that were never actually India before decided to keep the name.
Bharat has a different but equally rich history. It should stand on its own two feet without needing to co-opt the name used for the western edge of the subcontinent.
A rich history that is seperate from south India but ok
Nonsense. When foreigners, said India, Al Hind, Hindustan etc, they weren't just referring to the region the Sindhu river (modern day Pakistan). They were talking about the entire land beyond the Sindhu river which included the modern day Republic of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. The native names of Bharatvarsh and Jambudvipa also referred to the same territories.
@@EspeonMistress00as a South Indian, no idea what ur talking about when u say South India has a separate history
Then why did megasthenes call places as far as Bihar India? And that was 300 BC mind you.
@@dwarasamudra8889south India has a distinct but shared history with north India. Two things can be true at once.
I dislike countries insisting English speakers use their preferred chosen exonyms.
Then what do you want and why?
@@karaqakkzl Native English speakers to be allowed to use our desired endonyms for other places. And because why not?
@@konycurrentyear7053and it is always some middle or west Asia country. No Finnish people want to be called in the english language as Suomi etc
Bar =son At =8. The rishis that escaped the global flood. Manu (noah) and his family were 8 people. The number of new beginnings is 8 in gematria.
Hindustan which means the state of the Hindis is the Persian name for the country, as northern India was rules by Persian rulers or Persian speaking Mungul rulers for many centuries. The present day Hindi language has lots of Persian vocabulary, and also north Indian cuisine has a great influence of Persian cuisine.