India Be Named As Bharat/hindustan

[Husky]

But it <i>is</i> called Bharatam/Bharatavarsha already (and Bharatadesha also I think). Bharatam is how my family members/people of the same village as my grandparents call it (unless they had need on occasion to say something in English, which is the only time they ever said 'India'). Isn't this the case with everyone? I thought we only said 'India' on this forum because we were writing in English. Even the word India derives from Hindu origins (Sindhu, Indu, Hindu) - without which neither the Parshyas nor Greeks (let alone the recent christocolonials from Britain who only copied the word from the Romans) could have got their names for our region.

Some stuff:
http://sarasvati95.googlepages.com/antiquityhindu.pdf
<b>Antiquity and Origin of the Term 'Hindu'</b> by Dr. Murlidhar H. Pahoja

Hindusthanam is mentioned in a shloka too. Besides, you can trace the word back to 'Hindu' (which has Hindu origins, see pdf above) and the word 'sthanam' (Samskritam).

http://www.hindubooks.org/whr/why_hindu_.../page9.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>WHY HINDU RASHTRA ?</b>
<b>Hindu Rashtra - Eternal and Perennial</b>
[...]
While in the Vedic period the feeling of intense intimacy towards the motherland is expressed in the words "Mata bhoomih putroham prithivyah" - "Aye, we are children of this mother earth," in the Pauranic period it takes the form of :

(उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रश्चैव दक्षिणम् ।
वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र संततीः ।।
From: Vishnu Purana (2.3.1)[1][2])
<b>Uttaram yat samudrasya, Himadreschaiva dakshinam !
Varsham tad Bharatam nama Bharati yatra santatih !!
(Bharat is the name of country situated to the north of the sea
and south of the Himalayas and its progeny is known as Bharati.)</b>

The same sentiment was expressed in the middle ages in the following sloka of Barhaspatya shastra :

<b>Himalayam samarabhya yavadindu sarovaram !
tam devanirmitam desham Hindusthanam prachakshate !!
This land created by the Gods and extending from the Himalayas to Indu Sarovar [i.e., the Indian Ocean], is known as Hindusthan.)</b>

It is to be noted that this sloka also points to the possible formation of the word Hindu, as a beautiful synthesis of Hi of the Himalayas and Indu of the Indusarovar. There is also the belief that it is a variation of Sindhu originally used to denote the people living in the region around the river Sindhu (Indus) but later came to be applied for the people of the entire country. There is no doubt that in both the cases, the word Hindu has been used for the offspring of this land. The following Vedic sloka has sublimated this tradition of intense attachment to the motherland by depicting it (motherland) as the Rashtradevata, the divine manifestation of nationhood itself


<b>Bhadramicchanta rishayah swarvidah tapodeekshamudaseduragre
Tato rashtram balamojascha jatam tadasmai deva upasannamantu.
(The sages carried out austere penances for the welfare of mankind; and out of that (penance) was born the nation endowed with strength and prowess. Therefore let us worship this Rashtradevata. (Atharva-Veda)</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Some related stuff from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userreetikapoor0 - got the purple bit above from here as well.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->जो समुद्र के उत्तर और हिमालय के दक्षिण में स्थित है , उस देश का नाम भारत है तथा उसकी संतानों को भारतीय कहते हैं।
The country that lies north of the ocean, and south of the snowy mountains, is called Bhárata, for there dwelt the descendants of Bharata.


गायन्ति देवाः किल गीतकानि धन्यास्तु ये भारतभूमिभागे ।
स्वर्गापवर्गास्पदहेतुभूते भवन्ति भूयः पुरुषाः सुरत्वात् ।।
From: Vishnu Purana (2.3.24)[4][5]
Meaning:The Gods themselves exclaim, "Happy are those who are born, even from the condition of Gods, as men in Bhárata-varsha, as that is the way to the pleasures of Paradise, or the greater blessing of final liberation. [6]


हिमवत्समुद्रान्तरमुदीचीनं योजनसहस्त्रपरिमाणम्
From:अशा-०९.१.१८ (अर्थशास्त्रम् अध्याय 09, Chanakya)[9]
Meaning: To the north of the oceans up to the Himalayas, the country is 1000 yojanas in length.[10]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> (I turned the G in Gods to uppercase in the above)


To the Zoroastrians of Parsa, the word Hindustan had the same meaning, -stan being the Iranian equivalent of the sthan(am) of Samskritam. There is certainly nothing islamic in the word Hindustan. However, there is definitely something very kaffiri about every country whose name contains '-stan'.

Although I thought the government officially recognised the country as Bharatam too ("India, that is Bharatam"), what matters when we get down to it is that Hindus have since long ago used this as the name of our country. We still do.