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Is India Changing Its Name to Bharat? G20 Invite Controversy Explained
Channel News Asia ^ | 07 Sep 2023

Posted on 09/07/2023 2:27:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway

NEW DELHI: Invites sent by Indian President Droupadi Murmu calling herself "President of Bharat" for a dinner on the sidelines of the G20 summit have stirred speculation that the government may be about to change the country's name.

WHAT IS THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT INDIA'S NAME?

By convention, invitations issued by Indian constitutional bodies have always mentioned the name India when the text is in English, and the name Bharat when the text is in Hindi.

However, the invites - in English - for the G20 dinner called Murmu the President of Bharat. An official at the president's office said they didn't want to comment on the issue when asked by Reuters.

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To: nickcarraway

Does that mean that the Cleveland Indians can take their name back?


21 posted on 09/07/2023 3:24:45 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: PGR88
It was called “HINDUSTAN” and “HIND” before the British arrived.

India has been known as India for the last 2,500 years. The Latin name for India is India.


22 posted on 09/07/2023 3:36:40 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: nickcarraway

A brutal thought just entered my mind. If they change the name will the American Indians now be called American Brats?


23 posted on 09/07/2023 3:42:27 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, the names just roll off the tongue!


24 posted on 09/07/2023 4:10:01 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect; Dilbert San Diego

List of languages by number of native speakers

Ordered by number of speakers as first language.

More than one million speakers

The 2011 census recorded 31 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers (0.1% of total population). The languages in bold are scheduled languages (the only scheduled language with less than 1 million native speakers is Sanskrit). The first table is restricted to only speaking populations for scheduled languages.

First language speakers

Second language
speakers[12]
Third language
speakers[12]
Total speakers

Language
Figure[12]
% of total
population

Figure[13][12]
% of total
population

Hindi [note 2]
528,347,193
43.63%
139,207,180
24,160,696
691,347,193
57.09%

Bengali
97,237,669
8.03%
9,037,222
1,008,088
107,237,669
8.85%

Telugu
81,127,740
6.70%
11,946,414
1,001,498
94,127,740
7.77%

Marathi
83,026,680
6.86%
12,923,626
2,966,019
99,026,680
8.18%

Tamil
69,026,881
5.70%
6,992,253
956,335
77,026,881
6.36%

Gujarati
55,492,554
4.58%
4,035,489
1,007,912
60,492,554
4.99%

Urdu [note 3]
50,772,631
4.19%
11,055,287
1,096,428
62,772,631
5.18%

Kannada
43,706,512
3.61%
14,076,355
993,989
58,706,512
4.84%

Odia
37,521,324
3.10%
4,972,151
31,525
42,551,324
3.51%

Malayalam
34,838,819
2.88%
499,188
195,885
35,538,819
2.93%
Punjabi
33,124,726
2.74%
2,300,000
720,000
36,074,726
2.97%

Assamese
15,311,351
1.26%
7,488,153
740,402
23,539,906
1.94%

English
259,678
0.02%
83,125,221
45,993,066
129,259,678
10.67%

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India


25 posted on 09/07/2023 4:22:21 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like a Hindu fart.


26 posted on 09/07/2023 4:22:35 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: nickcarraway

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.


27 posted on 09/07/2023 4:30:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: dfwgator

The irony is that if the British had not built the Raj, India would not be a country, but a subcontinent of many countries. They stitched it together and it ultimately only split into 3 parts as opposed to dozens.


28 posted on 09/07/2023 4:52:29 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: reg45

Or the Stanford Indians?


29 posted on 09/07/2023 4:53:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Why should I give a Hindi or a Shi’ite about what other want to call their country?


30 posted on 09/07/2023 4:58:38 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: nickcarraway

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.

31 posted on 09/07/2023 5:09:21 PM PDT by x
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To: Jyotishi
Kannada 43,706,512

There are more people in Kannada than in Canada.

Wonder how many bar rats there are in Bharat.

One thing we can say about the President of Bharat is that Murmu will never wear a mumu; most of the time she will be a sari sight.

32 posted on 09/07/2023 5:33:52 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


33 posted on 09/07/2023 5:37:15 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: x
Burma could become Myanmar, because not that many people were familiar with the country.

I would disagree: not only was Burma one of the main battlefields in the Pacific War, but every road had a Burma Shave sign as late as the 1960s.

34 posted on 09/07/2023 5:37:36 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

You like to play with words and you’re not changing, chajin.


35 posted on 09/07/2023 6:50:00 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: SeekAndFind
If enough Indians want a change, I don’t see why not.

There IS no change. Article 1 of the Indian constitution says, "India, that is Bharat..." and the official Hindi versions starts with-translated- "Bharat, that is India...."

All the Govt is doing is giving primacy to the Sanskrit word over the English (Latin?) word.

The word "India" cannot be banned without changing the constitution. However, govt communications can change the primacy of one of the names.

36 posted on 09/07/2023 9:49:57 PM PDT by IndianChief
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To: IndianChief

RE: All the Govt is doing is giving primacy to the Sanskrit word

If that is the case, then what will be the official name used in daily international transactions from now on?

Will the United Nations use the Sanskrit name? Will the Olympic Games, International meetings, newspaper references, etc. use the Sanskrit name?


37 posted on 09/08/2023 4:17:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Internationally, India will be used. Internally Bharat will gain primacy.

the ruling Conservative and Nationalist party has Bharat in its name. The elitist corrupt opposition party uses "Indian" in it's name.Just saying..

38 posted on 09/09/2023 5:14:24 AM PDT by IndianChief
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39 posted on 09/09/2023 7:49:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: dfwgator

That charted when I was a kiddo..


40 posted on 09/09/2023 1:02:14 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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