Question

इन व्हाट वेज़ इज द मीनिंग ऑफ द टर्म हिंदुस्तान चेंज्ड ओवर द सेंचुरी​

Answer 1

Answer:

The meaning of the term “Hindustan” changed over the centuries:

In the 13th century, Minhaj-i-Siraj wrote the Persian used “Hindustan” in the political sense for lands, that was the part of the dominions of the Delhi Sultan.

In the 14th century, the poet Amir Khusrau used the “Hindi” word for the people and culture of the Indus river.

In the 16th century, Babur used the word to describe the geography.

Answer 2

It has been observed that language and its interpretation change with the change of time. The term 'Hindustan' was used for the first time by Minhaj-i Siraj, a thirteenth-century Persian chronicler. He, with this term, meant the areas of Punjab, Haryana and the lands between the Ganga and Yamuna. It was used in a political sense for lands constituting a part of the dominions of the Delhi Sultan. Though the term shifted with the extent of the Sultanate but it never included south India. Later in the sixteenth century, Babur, while using this term, meant the geography, the fauna and the culture of the inhabitants of the subcontinent. A fourteenth-century poet Amir Khusrau also used the term 'Hind' almost in the same sense. The remarkable point is that while the idea of a geographical and cultural entity like 'India' did exist, the term 'Hindustan' did not carry the political and national meanings that we associate with it today.