How did Indians get their names?
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from yo mamma,\n\njust kidding, depends on what time period, what part of the country and how traditional the indians were.  My tribe, in the old days, named people after what they did in life (or were caught doing.).  My name was given to my grandfather after he went to an Indian boarding school and is really a first name in your language....
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Actually because of indenturship. The "East Indians" came to help the africans to cut cane in the Caribbean mostly in Trinidad and Guyana and the rest in the other islands they fortunately were allowed to practice their cultures and religions.  Further more during the years they moved around to other islands in the lesser antilles
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I suppose, indians were the first :-)
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I'm not sure if is Indian \nbut almost every country has a nick name\nlike french are called gallos,Spanish,iberos,Americans Yankees,etc,etc,.\nboricua comes from BORINQUEN which is the second name of PUERTO RICO
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because they were named by the greeks and romans. The Egyptians had names for them too, but since english is based on latin, we get most of our "stuff" from the Latin speaking Romans.
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While its true some asians change their names so that Americans can pronounce it easier,most do not!They may use a nickname,but the original name stays in tact.Many Indians just want to fit in with their surroundings which is only natural,it does not mean they are not proud of their cultural heritage,you are being a tad too harsh.
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The first Article of the Constitution of India, which deals with the official name, states that "India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states." Thus, not only in usage but officially India and Bharat are both accorded primary status. The name India is derived from the river Indus.\n\nThe original name of the river came from the fact that in the north-west of the subcontinent, there are seven main tributaries of the one river. The local inhabitants therefore called it Sapta-Sindhu, meaning the seven rivers. As the seven tributaries are part of the one river, the entire river system came to be known in time as Sindhu. In general, Sindhu also means any river or water body in Sanskrit.\n\nPersian explorers visited the area even in ancient times, and the Iranian 'h' is cognate with Sanskrit 's'. Thus Sindhu became Hindu. Similarly, Sanskrit Asura (a spirit, later an evil spirit) is cognate with Ahura, the Supreme God of the early Iranian people.\n\nThe name of the river entered Greek from Persian, with the loss of the initial 'h', to become Ίνδός Indos, from which the Greeks derived their name for the region, Ίνδια India. The Latin form of Indos is Indus, the name by which the river system is still known in the West. Its name was given to the entire subcontinent by the Romans, who adapted it to the current India.\n\nThe word India is the form used by Europeans over the ages.\n\nSindhu is also the Sanskrit term for Ocean and for any large water body. It would specifically mean the modern river Indus, if ancient Indic originated there. It could just mean "water dwellers" as well.\n\nInterestingly, the Vedas did not assign any particular name for India, although some scholars assert that references to Indu in the Rig Veda relate to India's present name. Many traditional literary/cultural works from around the globe lack definite terminology for their home culture as a political unit; China, Greece, and many other civilizations lacked fixed names for themselves in traditional literature of their early periods.\n\nIn the Matsya Purana 126, the length of India (Bharatavarsa) is 9,000 puranic yojanas, which is a good estimation.[1]\n\nListed by, among others, Colonel James Todd in his Annals of Rajputana, he describes the ancient India under control of tribes claiming descent from the Moon, or "Indu", and their influence in Trans-Indian regions where they referred to the land as Industhan. This explanation might serve better to explain the term Hindu. Having said that, ancient Greeks do mention the Indic tribes or related tribes (could be of Iranian origin or joint Indo-Iranian origin) inhabiting what is now Ukraine as Sindoi or Sindkoi.\n\nThe name India was known in Anglo-Saxon, and was used in King Alfred's translation of Orosius. In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered early modern English as Indie. The use of the name India dates from the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese. [2]\n\nBhārata\n Some people regard Emperor Bharata to be the first and only emperor to rule all of India. Shown here is the approximate extent of his reign, Bharatvarsha,Bhārata, sometimes Bhāratavarsha (Bhārat or Bhāratvarsha in Hindi) is the name in Sanskrit and many languages of India for northern India. The Hindi form is also an official name of the Republic of India, and possibly the earliest name given to the nation. (Article 1 of the Constitution of India - 'India that is Bharat shall be a Union of States.'). In Sanskrit, it is pronounced as [bʱaːrət̪ə] while in Hindi as [bʱaːrət̪\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_India
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Try google search for names and their meanings. :o)
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cause they are indians\n\n:> peace\n.
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If you mean American Indians (Native Americans), they are their own race.  They are probably descended from Asians.\n\nIf you mean Asian Indians, they are Asians, particularly, South Asians.
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i believe he was looking for India. that's why native people are called Indians
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Excerpt from Wikipedia article:\n\nThe name of the lake is named after the Erie tribe of Native Americans who lived along its southern shore before European contact.
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It means that they chose that name as their ID.
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There are a few different Jewish groups who came into India at different time periods.\n\nThe "Bnei Menashe" are one tribe with seemingly very acient roots.\n\nIn the news: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885847335&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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india name was given by britishers and bharatdesh was original name of india.
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I've heard they like to be called Little People. But thats also like the Indians (or Native Americans) 'likeing' to be called Native Americans.
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There were called the Kansez Indians.\n-MM