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> Europeans used the word India long before Britishers colonized India. So why use a European name, shouldn't it be an "Indian" name.
by sumedh 8y ago
> Europeans used the word India long before Britishers colonized India.
So why use a European name, shouldn't it be an "Indian" name.
- sbmthakur 8y agoBharat(along with India) is a constitutionally recognized name. So it is actually used in official context. But the general convention is India for English, and Bharat for Hindi(and some other languages like Marathi). > So why use a European name, shouldn't it be an "Indian" name. It's difficult to answer. I think Indians usually don't have much problem with foreign words. The day-to-day Hindi is somewhat influenced by Persian and even the word for the majority religion (Hindu) has a Persian origin. But in case of English worded cities, it quickly becomes problematic as they were named during the colonial period.
- Jagat 8y agoThere's also this other issue that unified India is an extremely new thing and it wasn't common for people within India to refer to that landmass as a whole.