Question

hello guys:-
can anyone help me that why India was given the name Hindustan??

Answer 1

Hey mate here is your answer》》

The name of India is a corruption of the word Sindhu. Persians uttered ‘s’ as ‘h’ and called this land Hindu. Greeks pronounced this name as Indus.

A little history -

Back in the days, when Sanskrit was the de facto language, this big group of rivers flowing through erstwhile west India was known as “Sapt-Sindhu” – which means seven rivers in Sanskrit – Indus (known as Sindhu then) and its tributaries – Sutlej, Jhelum, Beas, Ravi, Chenab and the now extinct Saraswati.
The people/culture/civilization living around Sindhu came to be known as “Sindhu”. The Persian traders started pronouncing it “Hindus”. The land of “Hindus” hence came to be known as Hindustan. So the people living in India before Mughals were knows as Hindus or Hindustani, which inherently means that “Hindu” is actually another name for the people living in India and has got nothing to do with religion.
The early European traders picked up “Hindus” from Asian merchants, esp Persians The Greeks simplified the name further by calling it “Indos”, and then some bright Greek scholar thought of substituting the “o” with "u”… and thus the name Indus was born. The Romans picked up the name and the "land of Indus” came to be known as “India”..

Hope this answer will help you..《《

Answer 2

India's earliest name was sindhustan because of the river Indus or Sindhu the Persian and the other people from different countries were not able to pronunciate this word so they called indostan and then hindostan to sindhustan then a new name was called to India which was Hindustan.