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India word came from chain of mispronunciation from Invaders.
A land of SINDH, whose name came from River Sindhu which was pronunciated by Persian as Indu, Greeks called river as Indus instead of Sindhu. European started looking for land called as Indie, later named Caribbean island as West Indies. Called Hind Ocean as Indian Ocean, island country as Indonesia. Britisher started calling land of Sindh as India which by Muslim Invaders called as Land of Hind.
When Ummaiyad Caliphat happen, they invaded south asian land of SINDH. Ummaiyad mispronounce it as HIND. People of land were Called SINDHI, but they mispronounced it as HINDI and people living there as HINDU.
When land route to India from EUrope was blocked by Ottoman empire for few hundred years, European country started searching for sea route to Indie, mainly for cotton, masala, diamonds & gold business. Instead of finding Indie, Columbus, reached to Americas, Caribbean. Later when they found out itâs not indie land, they named it as WEST INDIE. Vascod Gama, went to East and reach Eastern part of Africa where he found Gujarati sea merchant, who took him to Bengal port, thatâs how first European found sea route to Indie. After that Britisher, East india Company, came in 1600, started doing business with India till 1748. East India company gave military help to a Bengal King and that king gave land to Britisher in Gift and Britisher one by one and took control of entire south asian by 1850.
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