Q&A: ‘The word Hindu is Arabic. Why don’t they throw it out?’ - Interview with Prominent historian Irfan Habib

[nahtanbob]

It s a small minded narrative to go on a rebranding spree. But it happens all the time in India and other countries. Eg Lyallpur is Faislabad, Stalingrad is St Petersburg, Burma, Peking so on and so forth

Err ... Leningrad is St Petersburg
Stalingrad is Volgograd

 

[wildlens]

Err ... Leningrad is St Petersburg
Stalingrad is Volgograd

I stand corrected

 

[Joe Shearer]

If you're going to rescue him out of his BS then do it right - post the Persian and Mesopotamian sources that say lands east of Punjab is Hind or Sindh. I'll be waiting.



Until the British came a man in a Maharashtrian village or an Orissa village didn't know they were "Indian" or "Hindu".
99% 'Indians' today don't even realize they live in a made in UK psychological bubble.

Neither of these were used within India. That is why, as in their renaming Allahabad Prayag Raj, and their wish to rename Hyderabad Bhagyanagar, the Hindutva brigade are trying to do away with the name India, as well as the constitution that names India a secular democracy.

It s a small minded narrative to go on a rebranding spree. But it happens all the time in India and other countries. Eg Lyallpur is Faislabad, Stalingrad is St Petersburg, Burma, Peking so on and so forth

It's a reality. After all, Calcutta is Kolkata, Bombay is Mumbai, Madras is Chennai. I don't see why these renaming sprees are needed.