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Latin India is used by Lucian (2nd century CE). [citation needed] India was known in Old English language and was used in King Alfred's translation of Paulus Orosius. In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered Early Modern English as "Indie". The name "India" then came back to English usage ...
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area ; the most populous country from June 2023 onwards; [ 22 ] [ 23 ] and since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
In the time of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal empire, the ruling elite and its Persian historiographers made a further distinction between "Hindustan" and "Hind". Hindustan referred to the territories of Northern India in the Miyan-Doab and adjacent regions under Muslim political control, while "Hind" referred to the rest of India.
The Indian system groups digits of a large decimal representation differently than the US and other English-speaking regions. The Indian system does group the first three digits to the left of the decimal point. But thereafter, groups by two digits to align with the naming of quantities at multiples of 100. [2]
With the expansion of Indosphere cultural influence of Greater India, [3] through transmission of Hinduism in Southeast Asia [4] [5] [6] and the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism [7] [8] leading to Indianization of Southeast Asia with non-Indian southeast Asian native Indianized kingdoms [9] adopting Sanskritization [10] of their languages and titles as well as ongoing historic expansion of ...
India is a feminine given name derived from the name of the country India, which itself takes its name from the Indus River. [1] The name was used for India Wilkes , a character in the novel and film Gone with the Wind . [ 2 ]
India is consistently one of the best teams in the world, in all of the sport’s formats – Test, one-day and T20 – but it has experienced a year pockmarked by disappointments, losing to ...
India today prides itself in being the world's largest democracy, and the 4th largest economy in the world. Even though much remains to be done, especially in regard to eradicating poverty and securing effective structures of governance, India's achievements since independence in sustaining freedom and democracy have been singular among the ...