who named and why it got the name "India" and why not Bharatdesh?
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india name was given by britishers and bharatdesh was original name of india.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
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Country, India \nM.K. Gandhi is called the Father of Our Nation, as he stood by Non Violence and contributed in ganing freedom to India.\n\nApart from him there are lesser known persons ( with respect to world) Like , Subash Chandra Bose, Sarojini Naidu, BG Tilak, Shivaji , Bhagat Singh, who all are Known Freedom Fighters , and they laid their lives to make India free from British Rule.
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surely India because of\nYuvraj Singh\nM. Kaif\nS. Raina\nstill many
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India ... which is why they are actually called Hindu/Arabic numerals.
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It is one of the oldest civilisation.\n\nIt was known as Bharat/Hindustan n many more..\n\nBritish ruled this land, and after independence it got broke into three pieces ( India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).
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sunny gavaskar is the first and only "little master" of India.\nSachin is better known by the name "master blaster"..dun confuse the two!
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I think it derives from a certain language called "tamil" \nand it's like from India or a similar country I'm not \nentirely convinced and sorry couldn't find what it means
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the kind that india is in... (i forget whta it is called)
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In some writings, it's called "Krishna ki Patrani" (Krishna's Queen). It's also called "Bansuri".
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AUSTRALIA\nThe name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning southern. Legends of an "unknown southern land" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times, and were commonplace in mediæval geography, but were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent. The Dutch adjectival form Australische ("Australian", in the sense of "southern") was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south as early as 1638."\n\nASIA\n"The word Asia entered English via Latin from Ancient Greek, first attested in Herodotus, where it refers to Asia Minor, or for the purposes of the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire as opposed to Greece and Egypt. Homer knows a Trojan ally named Asios, son of Hyrtacus, a ruler over several towns, and also describes a marsh as 461).\nThe Greek term was likely from Assuwa, a 14th century BC confederation of states in ancient Anatolia. Hittite assu- "good" is a likely element in that name. Elamites numeous in the east called themselves As, and at least one Aryan people on the central Eurasian steppes called themselves Asi. Alternatively, the ultimate etymology of the term may be from the Akkadian word asu, which means "to go out" or "to rise", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East. Compare to this the suggestion for the etymology of Europe from Semitic erebu "to set". The motives for the names of Asia and Europe would thus mirror each other, much like the terms orient and occident (the names Anatolia and Levant likewise signify "sunrise"). This suggestion is widely quoted, but it suffers from the fact that Anatolia from an Akkadian or generally Semitic perspective does not lie in the east."\n\nAFRICA\n"The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.\nThe origin of Afer may either come from: the Phoenician `afar, dust; \nthe Afri, a tribe—possibly Berber—who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area; \nthe Greek word aphrike, meaning without cold (see also List of traditional Greek place names); \nor the Latin word aprica, meaning sunny. \nThe historian Leo Africanus (1495-1554) attributed the origin to the Greek word phrike (meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a land free of cold and horror. But the change of sound from ph to f in Greek is datable to about the first century, so this cannot really be the origin of the name.\n\nEgypt was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer Ptolemy (85 - 165 AD), who accepted Alexandria as Prime Meridian and made the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of Africa expanded with their knowledge\n\nEUROPE\n"In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus in bull form and taken to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to Minos. For Homer, Europa was a mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later Europa stood for mainland Greece and by 500 BC its meaning was extended to lands to the north."\n\nTHE AMERICAS:\n"The earliest known use of the name America for the continents of the Americas dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine na
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the first prime minister of india is pandit jawaharlal nehru. we also call them chacha nehru,because he loved childrens.thats why we celebrates his birthday as childrens day on every 14 NOVEMBER.
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"Earth" is the name the inhabitants of the third Solar planet call their world. This word is an ancient one, and is in English. All the logical paths that lead to a planet's name require the conclusion that no other planet could have this exact name.\n\n;-D Of course miracles happen every day! If some aliens like the name "Earth" then I won't stop them from calling their planet 'Earth!"
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The most ancient name was Aryavarta (Abode of the noble or excellent ones or abode of the aryans). But this did not cover the complete present day borders of India, it had a significant boundary.\n\nThen at a later stage it was named as Bharat, after a king.\n\nAt a more later stage when the persians arrived they named it Hindustan, after the river sindhu.\n\nThen the british called it India, after the indus (sindhu) river.
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When britishers invaded India, they couldnot understand what "bharat" was and it was too hard for them to pronounce it. When it was found, the founding fathers of Bharat named it India. Even when it was called Bharat it was divided and not a country. The name India made it a country. It was finally put on map as country of India. it was never on map as Bharat.
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Earth also called as blue planet.Sorry i don't astrology name of the earth.
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For his official title and name it is.  DR. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM\n\nDr. Kalam became the 11th President of India on 25th July 2002