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India, That Is Bharat

CBSE · Class 6 · Social Science

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1

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.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Names, identity, and historical understanding of India as an ancient and culturally unified subcontinent

Ancient unity of IndiaHow Indians named IndiaHow foreigners named IndiaIndian Constitution and national nameTravellers and inscriptionsGeography in ancient references

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