Is Bharat the new name for India...?
Is Bharat the new name for India...?
Invites to a dinner outside the G20 summit that indian President Droupadi Murmu sent out with the title "President of Bharat" have sparked rumours that the government is planning to rename the nation.WHAT IS THE DISPUTE OVER THE NAME OF INDIA?By tradition, invitations sent out by indian constitutional bodies always include the names india and Bharat when they are written in english or hindi, respectively. The G20 dinner invitations, though written in english, referred to Murmu as the President of India.When questioned by reporters, a representative of the president's office stated that they did not want to comment on the matter. Critics claimed that the use of the name Bharat in the invitations was a sign that the government of prime minister Narendra Modi was campaigning for the label to be officially changed given their opposition to hindi and their support for the government's Hindu-nationalist ideology. In an effort to help india escape what it has referred to as a "slavery mentality," Modi's nationalist bharatiya janata party (BJP) administration has been renaming towns and cities with colonial names over time.WHAT IS THE COUNTRY'S OFFICIAL NAME? The South Asian superpower is known as india in english, but it is also known as Bharat, Bharata, and Hindustan in indian languages. We, the people of India... is the first phrase in the preamble of the english version of the constitution, and "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States" is the second. Except for the section defining the names of the country, the constitution replaces india with Bharat everywhere it appears in Hindi. This section reads, "Bharat, that is india, shall be a Union of States."
Invites to a dinner outside the G20 summit that indian President Droupadi Murmu sent out with the title "President of Bharat" have sparked rumours that the government is planning to rename the nation.WHAT IS THE DISPUTE OVER THE NAME OF INDIA?By tradition, invitations sent out by indian constitutional bodies always include the names india and Bharat when they are written in english or hindi, respectively. The G20 dinner invitations, though written in english, referred to Murmu as the President of India.When questioned by reporters, a representative of the president's office stated that they did not want to comment on the matter. Critics claimed that the use of the name Bharat in the invitations was a sign that the government of prime minister Narendra Modi was campaigning for the label to be officially changed given their opposition to hindi and their support for the government's Hindu-nationalist ideology. In an effort to help india escape what it has referred to as a "slavery mentality," Modi's nationalist bharatiya janata party (BJP) administration has been renaming towns and cities with colonial names over time.WHAT IS THE COUNTRY'S OFFICIAL NAME? The South Asian superpower is known as india in english, but it is also known as Bharat, Bharata, and Hindustan in indian languages. We, the people of India... is the first phrase in the preamble of the english version of the constitution, and "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States" is the second. Except for the section defining the names of the country, the constitution replaces india with Bharat everywhere it appears in Hindi. This section reads, "Bharat, that is india, shall be a Union of States."