How The India Got Its Name
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