it is said that every name has a history behind it how far is the true in case of Hindustan
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yes it is true that the name hindustan also have a history behind its name .
Hindustan, along with its shortened form Hind,[1] are the Persian names for India, broadly the Indian subcontinent, which later became used by its inhabitants in Hindi–Urdu.[2][3][4][5] Other toponyms of the subcontinent include Jambudvipa, Bharata, and India. After the Partition of India, it continues to be used as a historic name for the Republic of India.[6][7][8]
A secondary meaning of Hindustan is as a geographic term for the Indo-Gangetic Plain in northern India.[9]
Hindustan is derived from the Persian word Hindū cognate with the Sanskrit Sindhu.[10] The Proto-Iranian sound change *s > h occurred between 850–600 BCE, according to Asko Parpola.[11] Hence, the Rigvedic sapta sindhava (the land of seven rivers) became hapta hindu in the Avesta. It was said to be the "fifteenth domain" created by Ahura Mazda, apparently a land of 'abnormal heat'.[12] In 515 BCE, Darius I annexed the Indus Valley including Sindhu, the present day Sindh, which was called Hindu in Persian.[13] During the time of Xerxes, the term "Hindu" was also applied to the lands to the east of Indus.[10]
In middle Persian, probably from the first century CE, the suffix -stān was added, indicative of a country or region, forming the present word Hindūstān.[14] Thus, Sindh was referred to as Hindūstān in the Naqsh-e-Rustam inscription of Shapur I in c. 262 CE.[15][16]
Historian B. N. Mukherjee states that from the lower Indus basin, the term Hindūstān got gradually extended to "more or less the whole of the subcontinent". The Greco-Roman name "India" and the Chinese name Shen-tu also followed a similar evolution.[15][17]
The Arabic term Hind, derived from Persian Hindu, was used by the Arabs to refer to the Indianised region from the Makran coast to the Indonesian archipelago.[18] But eventually it too became identified with the Indian subcontinent.
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