Question

How our country got the name as INDIA??
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Answer 1

The name of India was Hindustan before but when the britishers came in Hindustan the named it as India coz of the Indus river.
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Answer 2

The name arises from the Indus river(a major river flowing through Pakistan,China and India)are the surrounding region.The original,Sanskrit name for this river was Sindhu.In the course of the linguistic game of Telephone,this become Hinduš to the Persians who had conquered the region and Greece by the end of Darius I's reign in the 5th century BCE,"INDOS" to Heredotus in Greece around the same time,and finally (INDIA) to the Greek Lucian who wrote in the 2nd century AD.




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