Attempts to change name of Pre partition India to South Asia in US

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In principle we should not.

However, one must oppose an attempt to set a trend. Pakistan is not a nation, and the entire region was called India prior to 1947.
The official map of India was so deeply fixed in my mind that it was a shocking fact to know that certain parts of the map are not actually under Indian control. Indian names of cities like "Mumbai", "Kolkata", "Chennai" etc are now in general use despite the fact that few anglophiles still prefer to use the "English" names. The US can only control the opinion of it's own people, not of our people. We Indians must start believing in ourselves.
 

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I think the US don't want to tell their children that their 'discoverer' Columbus was a blundering fool who landed in the wrong part of the world. And that India was originally in the american land mass.
:facepalm::hehe:

I guess they are running so low on self-worth as a nation that anything less than the Hollywood image of the glorious, pioneering & righteous American history will shatter their bloated egos.:rofl:
 

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Let them call what ever they want in their academics, American kids do not know their own state name. Some know the name of their state but cannot point it on a map.

Their country their rules. we should not be worried about it.

This land is called Bharat(Bharat Varsha) and it has thousands of years of History.
 

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This is anti-India propaganda done from US universities by people who are on the payroll of anti-India forces. So Indian Govt should care.
 

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Bharatvarsha's geographical extent,its ethno cultural regions, tribes, rivers, mountains as described in Mahabharta by Sanjaya.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m06/m06009.htm


From Srimad Bhagvatam SB 5.19.16-19

A Description of the Island of Jambūdvīpa


http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/19/16
http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/19/17-18
http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/19/19

In the Sri Lankan chronicle Mahavamsa, son of Ashoka (Mahindra) is reported to have introduced himself as an inhabitant of Jambudvipa to the Lankan king.




https://archive.org/stream/mahavamsaorgreat00mahciala#page/90/mode/2up

Buddha on Jambudvipa to his disciple Ananda



Even works of foreign travellers like Fa-Hien, Megasthenes, Hieun Tsang, Al Beruni etc refer to India as a civilizational entity.
 
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Bharatvarsha's geographical extent,its ethno cultural regions, tribes, rivers, mountains as described in Mahabharta by Sanjaya.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m06/m06009.htm


From Srimad Bhagvatam

In the tract of land known as Bhārata-varṣa, as in Ilāvṛta-varṣa, there are many mountains and rivers. Some of the mountains are known as Malaya, Maṅgala-prastha, Maināka, Trikūṭa, Ṛṣabha, Kūṭaka, Kollaka, Sahya, Devagiri, Ṛṣyamūka, Śrī-śaila, Veṅkaṭa, Mahendra, Vāridhāra, Vindhya, Śuktimān, Ṛkṣagiri, Pāriyātra, Droṇa, Citrakūṭa, Govardhana, Raivataka, Kakubha, Nīla, Gokāmukha, Indrakīla and Kāmagiri. Besides these, there are many other hills, with many large and small rivers flowing from their slopes. Two of the rivers — the Brahmaputra and the Śoṇa — are called nadas, or main rivers. These are other great rivers that are very prominent: Candravasā, Tāmraparṇī, Avaṭodā, Kṛtamālā, Vaihāyasī, Kāverī, Veṇī, Payasvinī, Śarkarāvartā, Tuṅgabhadrā, Kṛṣṇāveṇyā, Bhīmarathī, Godāvarī, Nirvindhyā, Payoṣṇī, Tāpī, Revā, Surasā, Narmadā, Carmaṇvatī, Mahānadī, Vedasmṛti, Ṛṣikulyā, Trisāmā, Kauśikī, Mandākinī, Yamunā, Sarasvatī, Dṛṣadvatī, Gomatī, Sarayū, Rodhasvatī, Saptavatī, Suṣomā, Śatadrū, Candrabhāgā, Marudvṛdhā, Vitastā, Asiknī and Viśvā. The inhabitants of Bhārata-varṣa are purified because they always remember these rivers. Sometimes they chant the names of these rivers as mantras, and sometimes they go directly to the rivers to touch them and bathe in them. Thus the inhabitants of Bhārata-varṣa become purified.

The people who take birth in this tract of land are divided according to the qualities of material nature — the modes of goodness [sattva-guṇa], passion [rajo-guṇa], and ignorance [tamo-guṇa]. Some of them are born as exalted personalities, some are ordinary human beings, and some are extremely abominable, for in Bhārata-varṣa one takes birth exactly according to one’s past karma. If one’s position is ascertained by a bona fide spiritual master and one is properly trained to engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu according to the four social divisions [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra] and the four spiritual divisions [brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa], one’s life becomes perfect.

http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/19

In the Sri Lankan chronicle Mahavamsa, son of Ashoka (Mahindra) is reported to have introduced himself as an inhabitant of Jambudvipa to the Lankan king.




https://archive.org/stream/mahavamsaorgreat00mahciala#page/90/mode/2up

whatever our scriptures say is our history and our territory. Some idiots call it mythology
 

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whatever our scriptures say is our history and our territory. Some idiots call it mythology
In several ancient texts the psycho-geographical aspects of Bharata are clearly delineated with an emphasis on civilizational unity.
 

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Pakis, atleast read your own national poet.

(Bang-e-Dra-042) Hindustani Bachon Ka Qaumi Geet by Allama Iqbal



^^ This is a reference to a popular Hadith. Ibn Abbas (RA) said, Ali (RA) said: "I feel cool breeze from Hind." Mustadrak Al-Haakim Hadith 3954.
 

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good, now more and more Indians are seeing real face of Friendly America. good going US, we will join chinese camp thanks to you :D
 

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