How did India get its name?

Answer 1

According to the book "History of the County of Middlesex Canada"

W. A. & C. L. GOODSPEED, PUBLISHERS. 1889

Robert Summers states that Indian summer is named from the fact that in the fall the Indians would burn the western prairies to make their harvest of game, the smoke and sometimes leaves coming over to Canada, and the settlers called the season Indian summer.

Answer 2

Saraswati was once a mighty river that flowed through the green valleys of Rajasthan and Gujarat. As a result of tectonic plate shift, Saraswati lost its waters. The waters of the Saraswati got diverted to flow into the Sindhu and the Ganga, making them mightier than before. Sindhu in Sanskrit means river, and the people of this mighty river are termed as Sindhu people. This got corrupted as Hindu by the Persians, and further got corrupted as Indians by the Greeks. Thus, Indians actually mean river people - the people who acknowledge the equivalence of rivers and ideas.

Answer 3

The name India, unsurprisingly, devolves from the word Hindi, and the related name of the river Indus.

The name India is derived from Indus, which is derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the historic local appellation for the Indus River. The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi, the people of the Indus.

Answer 4

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