Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Is India changing its name to Bharat? | DW News" video.

  1. Bharat has been India's indigenous name for thousands of years. While the name "India" comes from ancient Greek and Latin. If they officially request that other countries start referring to them by the indigenous name rather than the colonial name, that would be perfectly reason. I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long. It was way back in 1935, for example, that Iran formally requested that the rest of the world stop calling them Persia (also a name of Greek origin). And basically everybody responded with "okay, that's fair" and started calling them Iran.
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