Posted on 09/06/2023 11:55:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts to eliminate what it sees as colonial-era names.
Indian President Droupadi Murmu is referred to as “President of Bharat” instead of “President of India” in the invitation sent to G20 attendees. The nation of more than 1.4 billion people is officially known by two names, India and Bharat, but the former is most commonly used, both domestically and internationally.
Bharat is an ancient Sanskrit word which many historians believe dates back to early Hindu texts. The word also means India in Hindi.
The change in nomenclature is backed by officials of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. They argue that the name India was introduced by British colonials and is a “symbol of slavery.” The British ruled India for about 200 years until the country gained independence in 1947.
“Another blow to slavery mentality,” the top elected official of Uttarakhand state, Pushkar Singh Dhami, said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Dhami, who is a leader of Modi’s governing party, shared the dinner invitation sent to G20 guests in his post.
Modi’s party has long tried to erase names related to India’s Mughal and colonial past.
In 2015, New Delhi’s famous Aurangzeb Road, named after a Mughal king, was changed to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road after protests from Modi’s party leaders. Last year, the government also renamed a colonial-era avenue in the heart of New Delhi that is used for ceremonial military parades.
Modi’s government says the name changes are an effort to reclaim India’s Hindu past.
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Thanks for posting.
I figured the British were behind it. 🇬🇧
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Germany is a really weird edge case. Everybody has a different name for Germany. And vastly different in many cases. It’s Allemagne to the French. Tyskland in Norway. Really quite odd.
When the sun never sets on your empire you get to call things what you want I guess. But when the sun start setting, things change.
Ok, you win the thread.
No doubt.
Empires rise, and they fall.
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GTMA. You beat my smartass remark. LOL!
Probably because it wasn't even a country until recently, but the people were still similar enough and politically unified enough that everyone had to call them something.
They probably all translate to “the people that use too many consonants.”
I just call it “Land of the Jew Killers”
They will be Bharatinos.
Modi's rhetoric and that of his party are responsible for inciting Hindus resulting in murder and violence toward Indian Christians! Yes, Modi, his party and those they incite are virulent, hateful anti-Christians.
Re:https://www.christianpost.com/news/india-christians-beaten-to-death-in-ethnic-violence-23000-flee.html
I don’t see the connection to Modi’s rhetoric. This is like saying Trump’s rhetoric incites violence in the US (any mass shooting that was blamed on Trump) or that Trump incited the Jan 6th “insurrection”.
The name India comes from the Indus River and was used already by the ancient Greeks and Romans...long before the British ever got to India.
Bharatians...sounds like they’re stealing from Game of Thrones.
Well they are going to have to get rid of the English language, too.
Does anybody there speak Sanskrit any more?............
I think they should change it to: Rapist’s Paradise.
The Scots have a similar place descriptive scheme, but expressed in Gaelic vs Welsh.
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