Indian or Bharateeya?

In this Hobson-Jobson dictionary, page no 435 some details are given...

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:191.hobson

India gets its name from the river Indus along which exsited one of the oldest civilzations in the world.  The River Sindhu was called Hindu in Persian, Indos in Greek and Indus in Latin.

You might want to read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_India%27s_name

@rohini, very very right, fully correct.

Oh.. Great to know it..

I think Hindu is the Apabramsha of Sindhu.. (sindhu-river)

Yes, the persians can't pronounce 's'. So they would call the Sindhu river Hindu. The river is known as Indus to the west.

Oh..ok..  Some one told me that in old English Indian means not so civilized person.. might that be true???

checked in Webster..it doesnt say anything like that..neither does wiki say that..

so please introduce me to that someone..

Ok thank you... i'll try to introduce Someone to Unknown!!!!

Oh.. In wiki itself check the Hobson-Jobson dictionary.. in page no 435 some details are given..

Ok then "Red Indians" also belong to the same civilization?

Boss India was so in demand that time.. it was a like a paradise...

Desperate Columbus landed up at america and called the locals as Indians..thinking it was India..the same people are called Red Indians..

Unknown bhai, pleased to hear from you, where you been .

very right . people were so desperate and riches of the indians, lured many. nobody could cross the cape of good hope, the south african tip very dangerous.

@ surya, they were in america, mistakenly, thought of as indians by columbus. and thus named.

proper india, around the river indus , great civilization existed, hind, is an apbhransha ,of- ind only.  

@Pramod Bhai..

Yea I am slightly busy with some work.. being running around govt offices...

hope you are doing good

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india i think ,may be derived from indus valley civilization, ,