how was the name of India undergone a change over a period of time? Explain in 50 words.
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The renaming of cities in India started in 1947 following the end of the British imperial period. ... The most notable recent exceptions are Indian English spelling-changes of Orissa to Odisha (March 2011)[1] and the Union Territory of Pondicherry (which includes the City of Pondicherry) to Puducherry.
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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.The name India is derived from the river Sindhu or Indus.
(The word Sindhu, in general means 'river' and because of the 7 tributaries of the river, the region was called Sapt-Sindhu)
The name Hind is derived from the Iranian equivalent of Sindh, as, the Iranian 'H' is cognate with Sanskrit 'S'. And the persian word -stan means country or land. Thus the name Hindustan.
The Greeks, dropping the 'H' from Hindu, derived the word Indos .
The Latin form of Indos is Indus.
In Middle English (under French influence), the name was replaced by Inde.
In Early Modern English it was known as Indie.
Due to the influence of Latin, the name India came back to English usage from the 17th century onwards 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”.