Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts to eliminate what it...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4495502

Britain renamed Bharat to India when it was colonized, and the name is a symbol of colonial slavery.

  • COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    All Mughal emperors called India "Hindustan" Starting from babur to Aurangzeb. Lol. Lets that sink in... Here hindu means those who live beyond hindu kush mountains or river Indus.