why India is called Hindustan?
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The Persian 'Hindustan', and the Latin 'India', are both derived from the old-Persian term 'Hindu'. Hindu is Persian for Sindhu, the name for the Indus River in ancient Sanskrit. Thus, 'Hindustan' is 'the land beyond the Indus'.
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Because India was formed by ethnic group called Hindus and the name comes from Hindus meaning the ethnic group and Sthan meaning place
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