The interesting thing is the GGP post claimed: > [The term India] was not used by people in that area to describe themselves until european colonialists and oc

The interesting thing is the GGP post claimed: > [The term India] was not used by people in that area to describe themselves until european colonialists and occupiers arrived and promoted the term. But your source indicates it was Persians who used the term Hindus while they had conquered India. So it's probably not entirely true that European colonialists gave the country its present name, except maybe to prefer the Greek variant over the Persian. The underlying problem here is that non-wandering non-seafaring peoples often had no good pre-established name for themselves. The question "what is the name of your people and land" was sort of nonsensical to them. They might answer a term like "the people" or "the land" in the local language. The term "Aryan" literally seems to mean "the land" or "farmer" as in "one who works the land". But the land they're referring to is ... Iran. Get it? It's the same word. White supremicists actually love Iranians.