Okay, with the name change, can the US now send home all “Indians”?
“Is India Changing Its Name to Bharat?”
If they REALLY want to change their name to a card game, I guess it’s their right to do so.
Are they going to force everybody to wear Speedos?
Names can change.
Siam became Thailand
Persia became Iran
Turkey changed the spelling but don’t know if the pronunciation of Turkey has changed .
Why is the name considered a foreign invention?
The word Hindu comes from the Sanskrit word for the Indus River and people there SINDHU, which also has origin in Persian language
It was called “HINDUSTAN” and “HIND” before the British arrived.
Bharat is already India’s name, according to Wikipedia:
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya),[21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023;[22][23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world’s most populous democracy.[24][25][26]
“Bharat obama”?
Does that mean that the Cleveland Indians can take their name back?
A brutal thought just entered my mind. If they change the name will the American Indians now be called American Brats?
Sounds like a Hindu fart.
If enough Indians want a change, I don’t see why not.
Sri Lanka used to be Ceylon, Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia and Myanmar used to be Burma.
Heck, Indian cities have changed their names too. Mumbai used to be Bombay and Chennai used to be Madras. Kolkata was Calcutta, etc.
Why should I give a Hindi or a Shi’ite about what other want to call their country?
They've been using the two names for a long time. It's up there in the corner.
There may be a conflict between two kinds of national pride. One is wanting to go with the Hindi name and make the rest of the world use it and drop the foreign name. But "India" is known all around the world. "Bharat" doesn't have the same resonance. Burma could become Myanmar, because not that many people were familiar with the country. If India changes its name something would be lost.
India is a poophole country. Why couldn’t the Brits had done to Hinduism what the Spanish and French Catholics did to the pagan faiths of the Amerindians.