Not Indian here, but as far as I know, Bharat is the ancient name for India. India is a colonizer name assigned to the land by the British. So they are choosing to return to the ancient name over the colonizer name.
India is not a colonizer name lol. It's just what India was known as to the west. It comes from Greek and Latin. You're giving the English too much credit thinking they could ever come up with a name like India lol.
It is official bro lol. It’s written in the fucking Constitution that India is Bharat lol. They just wanna change name of everything instead of actually doing something for the country.
Our politicians are illiterates. Even in the Indian constitution it’s written that India and Bharat are same countries and you can use both. It’s just that you call India Bharat in Hindi. But they wanna name it back to Bharat.
nothing is official, elections are near rest you understand. As per constitution Article1- INDIA THAT IS BHARAT. india is english name bharat is hindi name
It’s kind of like if Japan officially changed its name to Nihon, to use an example people on this site may understand. It is technically what the place should be called, but the other name has been used for long enough that it feels strange to call it something else now.
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