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How The India Got Its Name

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Why India was called India? Was India having other names? We know our country by the name INDIA. But did you know, in the past, our country had other names too. Jambudvipa, Aryavarta, Bharatvarsha, Nabhivarsha and Tianzhan in Chinese and Hodu in Hebrew. Here I am discussing short story behind these names. INDIA The name of India is a corrupt version of the word Sindhu. The neighboring Persian pronounces ‘s’ as ‘h’ and called this land Hindu while Greeks pronounced it as Indus. Herodotus Sindhu is the name of the Indus River, mentioned in the Rig-Veda, one of the oldest extant Indian texts, composed in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent roughly in between 1700-1100 BC. There are strong linguistic and cultural similarities with the Iranian Avesta, often associated with the early culture of 2200-1600 BC. The English term is from the Greek word Iνδία (India), via Latin India. India in Byzantine ethnography denotes the region beyond the Indus (Ἰνδός) River, si
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ARYANS

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                 The most important, most discuss and most controversial part of the Indian history were ARYANS. Who were Aryans? Are they invaded / migrated to India? The term "Aryan" has had a history filled with controversy. The source of the English word ‘Aryan’ comes from the Sanskrit word 'arya'. The Sanskrit term has a similar with the Iranian word 'arya', means the noble man in both languages.                                                                                                                  When historians discuss about Aryans, they mention them as a ‘race’, which invaded / migrated from Persia to India, which followed the end of the Indus valley civilization. But some experts have different views. According to Professor Max Muller who was philologist and expert in Vedic studies. This was what he said in his lectures on the Science of Language. "In ar or ara, I recognize one of the oldest names of the earth, as the ploughed land,
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ANCIENT INDIAN CIVILIZATION

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Indus Valley Civilization The earliest imprints of human activities in India go back to the Paleolithic Age, roughly between 400,000 and 200,000 B.C. Stone implements and cave paintings from this period have been discovered in many parts of the South Asia. Evidence of domestication of animals, the adoption of agriculture, permanent village settlements, and wheel-turned pottery dating from the middle of the sixth millennium B.C. has been found in the foothills of Sindh and Baluchistan (or Balochistan in current Pakistani usage), both in present-day Pakistan. One of the first great civilizations--with a writing system, urban centers, and a diversified social and economic system--appeared around 3,000 B.C. along the Indus River valley in Punjab and Sindh. It covered more than 800,000 square kilometers, from the borders of Baluchistan to the deserts of Rajasthan, from the Himalayan foothills to the southern tip of Gujarat. The remnants of two major cities--Mohenjo-daro and Harappa--
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