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India, That Is Bharat

CBSE · Class 6 · Social Science

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Ancient Indian names for India

  • The Rig Veda is India's most ancient text and is several thousand years old.
  • The Rig Veda names the northwest region of the Subcontinent as Sapta Sindhava, meaning the land of the seven rivers.
  • Sindhava comes from Sindhu, which refers to the Indus River or sometimes to a river in general.
2

Ashoka and ancient inscriptions

  • Ashoka lived about 250 BCE.
  • Ashoka left many inscriptions.
  • In one inscription, Ashoka used the name Jambudvīpa for the whole of India.
3

Foreign names for India

  • The first foreigners to mention India were the Persians.
  • In the century BCE, a Persian emperor launched a military campaign and gained control of the Indus River region.
  • In ancient Persian, Hindu was a purely geographical term and did not mean the Hindu religion.
4

India, Bharat, and the Constitution

  • The Indian Constitution uses the phrase India, that is Bharat at the beginning.
  • The Hindi version says Bhärat arthäth India.
  • The Constitution was first written in English.

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The Rig Veda gives the northwestThe Mahābhārata uses this termThis term means the islandA few centuries after the MahābhārataThe Persians were the first foreigners

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