Why do most people on Pakistani news channels call India as "Hindustan"?

[El Sidd]

probably that is how they found out the true colors of "Hendis" and started calling them Hindus.

let me simplify it.

People from West of Indus call people from the East of Indus as Hinduwaan.

The term only recently got associated with religious denomination.

 

[Baba Google]

let me simplify it.

People from West of Indus call people from the East of Indus as Hinduwaan.

The term only recently got associated with religious denomination.

I never said its a religious term. Plus why is it so hard for Persians to pronounce Sindhu as indu or whatever.

 

[El Sidd]

I never said its a religious term. Plus why is it so hard for Persians to pronounce Sindhu as indu or whatever.

could be a tongue twister for them.

they are also human you know despite the propaganda

 

[Baba Google]

could be a tongue twister for them.

they are also human you know despite the propaganda

Lol, if that is what you believe then okay.

 

[El Sidd]

Lol, if that is what you believe then okay.

i don't belong to a tribe where knowledge is passed secretly. i told you what i know man.

find some other thread to boast about the whiteness of your skin

 

[Baba Google]

i don't belong to a tribe where knowledge is passed secretly. i told you what i know man.

find some other thread to boast about the whiteness of your skin

sir, I'm talking facts which you fail to realize or your just trolling.

Why is it so hard for Persians to pronounce Sindhu as sindhu when they everyday pronounce words like Shia Sunni etc.

 

[El Sidd]

sir, I'm talking facts which you fail to realize or your just trolling.

Why is it so hard for Persians to pronounce Sindhu as sindhu when they everyday pronounce words like Shia Sunni etc.

Maybe there ancestors couldn't.

Why don't you tell us? you have close links with them both

 

[Baba Google]

Maybe there ancestors couldn't.

Why don't you tell us?

Well if you are so eager to know, you can look up ancient Persian names starting with an "S" before Islam on Google. you will most likely get something and as they say something is better than nothing.

you have close links with them both

And this is a serious psychological disorder, you should see a psychiatrist, maybe he/she will help you ease your pain.

 

[El Sidd]

Well if you are so eager to know, you can look up ancient Persian names starting with an "S" before Islam on Google. you will most likely get something and as they something is better than nothing.

So you are going with blackish slave trade label then i assume?

You should see a psychiatrist to cure this syndrome of selected people.

And this is a serious psychological disorder, you should see a psychiatrist, maybe he/she will help you ease your pain.

You read literature from Lucknow and ahem ahem Iran so need i not prove my written word

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Hindustan is a Persian word for India, meaning the place/land of Indus (Hindus).

Indus was never historically part of India or Hindustan. Even you Iranians called the Indus region as Sindh, hence Sindh-abadi of Alf Laila wa Laila.

Actually what OP means is that Hindustan was the name given to the region ruled by Dilli Sultanat to the Mughals in today's UP, Bihar, Dilli, Hyderabad, etc.

India traditionally never had a stable nomenclature, as it is a hodge-podge of different nations, in actuality, more akin to a continent than a country. Even China was called India long ago.

 

[flameboard]

Indus was never historically part of India or Hindustan. Even you Iranians called the Indus region as Sindh, hence Sindh-abadi of Alf Laila wa Laila.

Actually what OP means is that Hindustan was the name given to the region ruled by Dilli Sultanat to the Mughals in today's UP, Bihar, Dilli, Hyderabad, etc.

India traditionally never had a stable nomenclature, as it is a hodge-podge of different nations, in actuality, more akin to a continent than a country. Even China was called India long ago.

China was called India I know Indians calling themselves Indians are kinda wrong but can you share some sources for that? Just curious

 

[Psychic]

Our ancestors were never "urban" people on these lands that are called Pakistan now. Our ancestors were a people scattered in small villages which were inhabited and abandoned from time to time. In good peaceful times settled agriculture flourished, in bad chaotic times the herding and grazing flourished. That is the reason our ancestors on these lands never developed any centralized kingdoms in the past. Our ancestors just didn't like urban life, they always preferred mobile active life of villages which were not permanent anyway. And yes I will remain proud of my ancestors and don't give **** to better "warrior" BS. Our ancestors never "waited" for any mofos to rule us, because ruling was taking place predominantly in the few urban centres of Punjab like Lahore, Sialkot, Multan etc. The people living in other areas never gave a damn about who was ruling and who was getting replaced in those urban centres.

The Chaks of Punjab were a "gift" of Sahab Bahadur. The people recruited for colonial wars and global conflicts came from those villages of Punjab many of which were themselves constructed by our colonial rulers. The limbardars which are still seen today in our villages are colonial relics; and the village elders who you claim were never ruled by anyone filled quotas of recruitment in the colonial army.

That is just one example of foreign influence in Punjabi villages. So much for being pure Punjabis who never evolved during the past thousand years and were never governed by others.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Actually they should call them Bharat, their official hindi name.

There was never a such thing as Bharat either. That is historical revisionism by Hindus. We are not obliged to use their religious propaganda.

China was called India I know Indians calling themselves Indians are kinda wrong but can you share some sources for that? Just curious

Before Marco Polo, everything East of Alexander's conquered territory was called India. Europeans had a very vague idea about that part of Asia.

Pakistan region actually had specific names like Sakastan, Gedrosia, etc. because we were known by the Europeans, Arabs, Persians, Iranics, Greeks, and Turks.

China was called India I know Indians calling themselves Indians are kinda wrong but can you share some sources for that? Just curious

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (Third Edition 2009), the name "India" is derived from the Classical Latin India, a reference to South Asia and an uncertain region to its east.

 

[Baba Google]

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (Third Edition 2009), the name "India" is derived from the Classical Latin India, a reference to South Asia and an uncertain region to its east.

"Too many chiefs not enough Indians".

Okay this is going way too far now, I'm out. Lol

 

[Joe Shearer]

I never said its a religious term. Plus why is it so hard for Persians to pronounce Sindhu as indu or whatever.

Accent.

The Indo-Iranians, when they split some 4,000 years or so ago, split down the middle with regard to accent as well. On the one side, they had difficulties with the sibilant, 's', and tended to make Hindu out of Sindhu, Haraovati out of Sarasvati.

They also had theological differences, and thought of Daiva as malignant, Ahura as beneficial. Those who split from them and took an easterly path, traversed the grim mountains and debouched into the plains beyond thought the opposite; so in the Rg Veda, Deva is godly, Asura (replacing the Iranian aspirate with a sibilant) was a demi-god who was on the other side of the Devas=Suras. This concept of two or more sets of demi-gods is not unique to Indians and Iranians; the Greeks had them, the Gods and the Titans, and so did the Scandinavian/German tribes; their leader in battle, the God Odin, was Aesir (Asura) and fought the Vanir (not clearly identified in Indian myth, but I have my views).

It is not hard to pronounce; it is due to habit and custom.

sir, I'm talking facts which you fail to realize or your just trolling.

Why is it so hard for Persians to pronounce Sindhu as sindhu when they everyday pronounce words like Shia Sunni etc.

You are not talking of modern Persians, but their very remote ancestors; the usage of those ancestors came down unquestioned. If you have learnt the term Arab, and somebody comes to you and says that the name should correctly be H'arab, would you change?

Pakistanis also call India, "Rapistan" "Tioletlessistan".

We know what to think of such creatures, whatever their nationality.