ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indus valley civilization started around 3300 BCE, since the Indian civilization started near the river Indus, our nation got its name “INDIA”. India was also home to an indigenous tribe called Bharata. This was how we derived the name Bharat for the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word ‘India’ comes from the word ‘Indus’, called ‘Sindhu’ in Sanskrit. The Greeks and Iranians called it ‘Hindos’ or ‘Indos’ meaning the land to the east of the river called Indus. The name Bharat was used by the people who lived in the North-West. Later, it was used for the country India.

Detailed explanation-3: -The name of India is a corruption of the word Sindhu. Neighbouring Arabs, Iranians uttered’s’ as ‘h’ and called this land Hindu. Greeks pronounced this name as Indus.

Detailed explanation-4: -From the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the name passed to the Greeks as Indós (). It was adopted by the Romans as Indus. The name India is derived from Indus.

Detailed explanation-5: -India received its name from the Indus river. The Iranians and the Greeks used to visit our country by entering from the northwest, and the land on the right of the Indus river was called Hindos or Indos, later becoming India.