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indus is derived from greek words for river indus and greek used word such as indic, indica to discribe people of indus in their ancient books.
We use word sindh for river Indus, other names of Indian subcontinent {which we used before brits is Hind, and Hindustan} are also derived from word sindh or sindhu..
Hindus were people who used to live on bank of river indus in ancient times.
Persian when conqured indus valley in ancient times they used to call it hindush and its people hindu..
Mughal used word Hindustan or Hind..
Once again thanks for this education.
It is south asain subcontinent not indian...otherwise they might invent some methology to claim all of south asian countries.
Let us call things by their proper name, young brother.
South Asian Subcontinent.
So indians are calling themselves with a foreign name then?
Don't they have some words in their hindi for themselves?
I am grateful for your historic perspective.