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Why India’s government wants to change the country’s name to ‘Bharat’
AP News ^ | Updated 7:28 AM CDT, September 5, 2023 | BY SHEIKH SAALIQ

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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TOPICS: Government; History; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: bharat; bharatiyajanata; brics; ccp; china; droupadimurmu; g20; groupof20; hindu; india; narendramodi; russia; sanskrit; sco; taiwan; unitedkingdom
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To: discostu

Thanks for posting.
I figured the British were behind it. 🇬🇧
👍😉


61 posted on 09/06/2023 12:44:12 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: Boogieman

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.


62 posted on 09/06/2023 12:44:14 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: MotorCityBuck

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.


63 posted on 09/06/2023 12:48:47 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ok, you win the thread.


64 posted on 09/06/2023 12:49:53 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: discostu

No doubt.
Empires rise, and they fall.


65 posted on 09/06/2023 12:50:12 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: fhayek

🤣


66 posted on 09/06/2023 12:50:20 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: dfwgator

GTMA. You beat my smartass remark. LOL!


67 posted on 09/06/2023 12:51:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't know what the hell it is but you can bet in America, it's "racist" and needs to be cancelled)
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To: discostu
"Everybody has a different name for Germany."

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.

68 posted on 09/06/2023 12:51:24 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

They probably all translate to “the people that use too many consonants.”


69 posted on 09/06/2023 12:55:58 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

I just call it “Land of the Jew Killers”


70 posted on 09/06/2023 1:01:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

They will be Bharatinos.


71 posted on 09/06/2023 1:02:19 PM PDT by MMusson
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To: libh8er
I don't think he is hateful ...

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

72 posted on 09/06/2023 1:03:48 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: JesusIsLord

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”.


73 posted on 09/06/2023 1:11:16 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Red Badger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk


74 posted on 09/06/2023 1:11:40 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: Red Badger

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.


75 posted on 09/06/2023 1:13:46 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Red Badger

Bharatians...sounds like they’re stealing from Game of Thrones.


76 posted on 09/06/2023 1:17:01 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Red Badger

Well they are going to have to get rid of the English language, too.


77 posted on 09/06/2023 1:24:40 PM PDT by arthurus (o| covfefe w|)
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To: arthurus

Does anybody there speak Sanskrit any more?............


78 posted on 09/06/2023 1:26:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I think they should change it to: Rapist’s Paradise.


79 posted on 09/06/2023 1:26:40 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: discostu
I prefer the original Welsh names for places in Wales. They are descriptive. Abertawe--> aber(mouth of river) tawe(Towy river) vs Swansea. Caerdydd--> caer(fort) dydd(day) vs Cardiff. My family lived in Ysbty Ystwyth--> Ysbyty(hospital) ystwyth (winding river). Some of the family came from Aberystwyth--> aber(mouth of river) ystwyth(winding river). You find a town with Aber(....) on the coast where a river terminates at the ocean. Pontrhydygroes-->pont(bridge over a river) croes(cross) a bridge at a crossroad that fords the river.

The Scots have a similar place descriptive scheme, but expressed in Gaelic vs Welsh.

80 posted on 09/06/2023 1:28:16 PM PDT by Myrddin
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