Indira Gandhi Memorial High School
ORIGIN OF BHARAT AND INDIA
We use two names for our country- Indian and Bharat.
INDIA
- The Iranians and Greeks came through northwest about 2500 years ago
- They were familiar with the river Indus and its adjacent place and called it the Hindos or the Indos.
- The land to the east of Indus was called India.
- Thus India comes from Indus, called Sindhu in Sanskrit.
BHARAT
- Mentioned in the Rigveda, about 3500 years ago.
- A group of people who lived in the Northwest.
- Later used for the country.
