Even if they prove that some old books have some reference to Bharat for part or whole of the peninsula, that can’t challenge that ‘India’, ‘Indian’, or its variant have been popular word referring to this land in most global and Indian languages for past two and half millennia. Greeks, Achaemenids, Kushan, Saka all knew it as India for 3000 years. Poor British came just 300 years back.
Forget India, globally ‘Indian’ or its variant have been most popular and refer to soul of something inherently belonging or resembling to this land. Even places or people who resembled circumstantially to this land have Indian or Indo as primary prefix for their identity. So vital India had been to the world. Indo China, native Indians of America, Indian ocean, Indonesia, West Indies. India is not just name of a nation it also represents our stature and importance we should be proud of.
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