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=The official name of India=
See [[India: The Land and the People]], especially for the debate on the word Hindustan

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= India, in the official languages of India=

Assamese	ভাৰত	Bhārôt

Bengali	ভারত	Bhārot

Bodo	भारत	Bhārôt

Dogri	भारत	Bhārat

Gujarati		ભારત	Bhārat

Hindi	भारत	Bhārat

Kannada	ಭಾರತ	Bhārata

Kashmiri	ہِندوستان	Hindōstān

Konkani	भारत	Bharot

Maithili	भारत	Bhārat

Malayalam	ഭാരതം	Bhāratam

Marathi	भारत	Bhārat

Meitei (Manipuri)	(Bengali Assamese  ভারত	Bharôt)      ( Meitei script 	ꯏꯟꯗꯤꯌꯥ[D]	Indiyā)

Nepali	भारत	Bhārat

Odia	ଭାରତ	Bhārata

Punjabi	ਭਾਰਤ	Bhārat

Sanskrit	भारतम्	Bhāratam

Santali	(Ol Chiki ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ[E]	Siñôt) (Devanagari 	भारोत 	Bharot)

Sindhi	भारत	Bhārat/ 	ڀارت	

Tamil	இந்தியா (official), பாரதம்[F][8]	Intiyā, Pāratam

Telugu	భారతదేశం	Bhārata

Urdu	ہندوستان	Hindustān

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=The word '' India '' =
The Avestan name for Sindh is Hinduš. It was inscribed by Persian emperor Darius I (550-486 BC) on the Persepolis terrace 

The ancient Greeks used the name Ἰνδία (Indía). Herodotus (484 – 425/413 BC) referred to "Indian land" Ἰνδός/ Indos (‘an Indian’), following the Persians.

The Byzantine people used the word Iindía to describe  the region beyond the Indus (Ἰνδός) River 

Ancient Latin speakers borrowed the name India from the Greeks. 

Most European languages—including English—use a variant of the Latin word India.

In English, King Alfred (A.D. 848-899)'s translation of ''Orosius ''  is the oldest known use of the word India in the English language. 

However, English writers who were influenced by the French replaced India with Ynde and Inde. Inde remains the French spelling. 

William Shakespeare (1564- 1616) and the first edition of the King James Bible (1611) used the spelling Indie 

In the 1600s the Spanish and the Portuguese spelt the word as it is today, India, which was also the official Latin spelling. This could have induced the British to revert to the spelling India.

Summary: The British did not ‘give’ us the name India. They took it from the Latin languages, which in turn took it from the Greeks, who were influenced by the Persians, who preceded the oldest known use of the word India by the British by more than 1300 years

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=The names of India in the languages of the world=
Afrikaans		Indië         

Albanian		India         

Arabic		الهند         Al Hind 

Belarusian		Індыя         

Bulgarian		Индия  

Cambodia. in ancient times knew India by the name "Suvarnabhumi," Sanskrit for the "Land of Gold" or "Golden Land."       

Catalan		Índia         

Czech		Indie         

Chinese: 印度 (Yìndù) . Ancient name     天竺 (Tiānzhú) The Chinese name "Tiānzhú" means "Heavenly Land",

Danish		Indien         

Dutch		Indië         

English		India         

Estonian		India         

Farsi		هندوستان         Hindostan, with an o

Filipino: India

Finnish		Intia         

French		Inde         

Galician				India         

German		Indien         

Greek		Ινδία         

Hebrew				הודו         Hodu is the Biblical Hebrew name for India mentioned in the Book of Esther

Hindi		भारत         

Hungarian		India         

Icelandic		Indland         

Indonesian		India        Ancient name: Hindia

Irish		An India         

Italian		India         

Japanese		インド      (Indoku)   Tenjiku was the ancient Japanese name for India, somewhat similar to the Chinese name. It is said that a merchant-adventurer Tokubei (1612–1692) had a lifelong ambition to visit 'Tenjiku' (the Heavenly Land). He even renamed himself Tenjiku Tokubei out of reverence for India.  

Khmer   ប្រទេសឥណ្ឌា bratesa Inda

Korean		인도     (Indeo)  

Lao ປະເທດອິນເດຍ pathed India  

Latvian		Indija         

Lithuanian		Indija         

Macedonian		Индија         

Malay: India

Mandarin		印度         

Norwegian		India         

Polish		Indie    (Indi)     

Portuguese		Índia         

Romanian		India         

Russian		Индия       (Indiya)  

Serbian		Индија         

Slovak		India         

Slovenian		Indija         

Spanish		India         

Southeast Asia  (Thailand, Malaysia, Java and Bali) Ancient name: Jambu Dwipa 

Swahili		Uhindi         

Swedish		Indien         

Tagalog. Filipino				Indiya 

Thai		อินเดีย    (Indiya/ In-thi-ya         )     

Tibet: Ancient names: 

i) Gyagar: This is the name that the people of Ladakh use to this day. 

ii)  བོད་ཡུལ་ (Bod-yul) The Tibetan name "Bod-yul" means "Land of the Bhoṭiya people" who live in the Himalayan area bordering Tibet and Nepal and are found in three states of India – Sikkim, West Bengal and Utarakhand. In Utarakhand, the Bhotia primarily reside in the districts of Pithoragarh, Chamoli, Almorah, Utarkashi and Nainital.

iii) Phagyul: the land of the Aryas i

Turkish		Hindistan         

Ukrainian		Індія         

Vietnamese		Ấn Độ         

Welsh		India

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