Why was india known as bharat? How did it come to be known as hindustan? How did Babur describe India?
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India is also called as Bharat and Hindustan because all people in India are hindu . Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire used the term Hindustan to describe the natural vegetation and geography of the country.
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According to Puranas, our motherland is known as Bharat and it is also derived from the name of Emperor Bharat, a son of King Dushyant and queen Shakuntala. The term Bharat Khand or Kshetra used in Vedas, Mahabharat, Ramayan and Purans is the region of present South Asia.
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.