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The name Jambudīpasi for "India" (Brahmi script) in the Sahasram Minor Rock Edict of Ashoka, circa 250 BCE. [39] Jambudvīpa (Sanskrit: जम्बुद्वीप, romanized: Jambu-dvīpa, lit. 'berry island') was used in ancient scriptures as a name of India before the term Bhārat became widespread.
Scylax's Periplus provided the West with its first account of the easterly people and served as a model for later Greek writers. [9] More lastingly, it gave India its name. The people of the Indus region were referred to as Hiduš or Hi n dush in Persian (due to sound change of *s > h from Proto-Iranian Sindhu). [14]
During the independence movement, the Indians referred to their land by all three names: 'India', 'Hindustan' and 'Bharat'. [47] Mohammad Iqbal's poem Tarānah-e-Hindī ("Anthem of the People of Hind") was a popular patriotic song among Indian independence activists. [48]
The nation of more than 1.4 billion people is officially known by two name. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent ...
The preamble to the English version of the constitution starts with the words “We, the people of India…,” and then in Part One of the document it states “India, that is Bharat, shall be a ...
Hence the name is derived from Malayalam words, cērnna ("added") and ālam ("land"), hence the Sanskrit keralam, "the land added on". (2) The Chera Kingdom, which ruled most of Kerala from the 1st to the 5th centuries AD, gave its name to the region; chēra ālam later became Keralam. This is often disputed in academic circles because the word ...
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While the demonym "Indian" applies to people originating from the present-day India, it was also used as the identifying term for people originating from what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh prior to the Partition of India in 1947. [37] [38] In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups.