Why is bharat called india

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Srinagar Srinagar,IN. Bharata is believed to be the founder of the famous Bharata dynasty. Therefore, after his conquer of the Indian land where he and his descendants dwelt, it started to be known as 'Bharatavarsa,' where varsa meant 'land' or 'continent'.

This is yet another name that has historical significance. Fourth is According to Jain Dharma:. According to another historian it is also said that:. Are you worried or stressed? Click here for Expert Advice. Comment 1. Post Comment.

Disclaimer: Comments will be moderated by Jagranjosh editorial team. Comments that are abusive, personal, incendiary or irrelevant will not be published. Well, if somebody would have asked Doctor Saheb about his home land, he could have replied with pride that he belonged to Bharat or India or Hindustan. But now the Honourable Dr. Now, Sir, it is for you to see what a beautiful reply it is. And the absentee was staring them in the face.

At that point of time, however, the discussion did not bear on the name of the whole country but on the demand made by certain Provinces such as Orissa to change their own particular names. At some point, R. Assembly decided that the name should be changed into Aryavarta. Congress Committee should be changed into Hindustan Congress Committee. Sidhva had another suggestion:. Why not U. If that is not acceptable there are other very fine names like Avadh, Ayodhya, Ganga, etc.

Why should they usurp the name of the whole of India and tell us they are the people who are the only custodians of India?

I strongly resent their monopolising the name of India. I assure you that U. You say why not give it the name of Avadh. Avadh is one of the very important parts of U.

Avadh has a tradition of Nawabs and feudal lords which we do not want. The solution is that the Provinces must be consulted and it must be acceptable to all-India authority and the all-India authority is the President and the President means the President and the Cabinet. Sidhva, this solution was no guarantee:.

Supposing they change it to Hindustan, what will be the remedy if the Provincial Legislature also says that U. India in future will be called Bharat but that does not mean that we discard the name Hindustan. Therefore you must tell me Sir how to safeguard the interests of the country in seeing that this word Hindustan is not adopted by the U.

This was known already. But when it came to the naming question, Bharat was the first name to appear. Bharatvarsh, Aryavarta and Hind were but marginally mentioned. Hindustan was never considered in this context. The task of describing them is enormous in scope and would require consulting an immense variety of sources. In this final section I merely look at some of the prevailing demands and statements at the time of writing this article. I do so on the basis of information found on internet blogs, personal pages and also printed materials appearing on the net such as newspapers, all in English.

As one would expect, the most likely place where this occurs is the Hindu nationalist milieu. A case in point is the article published in July by V. Sundaram, a retired member of the IAS and a freelance journalist known for his Hindutva leanings. According to V. But, he argued, this was a misconception: the word Bharat carries no communalist overtones and therefore it should be the sole official name of the country. Pakistan is also India, Bangladesh is also India, our country India is also India—all these three Indias together can legitimately be called India in the larger geographical sense.

We can possibly think of the name India as being appropriate for such a Federation if and ever it becomes relevant in the future. There is at least one Congress MP Goa who entertains the idea, if one is to judge by the Bill Shantaram Naik introduced on 9 August in the upper house of parliament Rajya Sabha to amend the first article.

Stating his reasons, the Member of Parliament declared:. The name also generates the sense of patriotism and electrifies the people of this country. It also finds its way in a context of anti-English or rather anti-Western crusades. Words do have a life of their own! Subramanian Swamy, the president of the Janata Party who was then teaching economics at Harvard, made the same demand.

Its processes are shaped by broad socio-political conditions and can be studied from several angles. In this paper I have adopted a cultural history perspective.

The evidence presented shows that it was the Puranic memory of a naturally bounded sea, mountains and specifically socially organized territory where human beings could fulfill the specific sets of socioreligious duties required to maintain their cultural identity. Pursuing the history of the reception of the Constitutional equation of Bharat and India in all its social and political complexities was beyond the scope of my enquiry.

I have merely pointed to two contemporary phenomena: the name Hindustan has continued to be widely used in spite of, or may be thanks to, its plurality of meanings and the implication of the equivalence of Bharat with India has remained a subject of debate. Ali, S. Barrow, Ian J. Bayly, Christopher A.

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