“India” is a misnomer: The name represent people of the Indus

OFFICIAL CONSTITUTIONAL NAME:  BHARAT

‘India is no more a country than the Equator’.Winston Churchill

“India” is as much a country as the Equator: Sir Winston Churchill

Real name “Hindustan”…too hard for British to pronounce

The origins of the word Anglacized “India” Come from Hind

Sindhu…Hindhu…

Sindh….Hindh…

Sindh…Sindhi..

Hindhi …Indus…India..

The monkier “Sindhi” or “Hindi” categorized those living on the banks of the Indus….not those who live on the Ganges

Pakistanis live on the banks of the Indus. Indians don’t..they live on the banks of the Ganges..

Ganges residents should be called “Ganghans”

Lord Mintos SubcontinentHow many states can you count?” the differences in India, between the two major nations, the Hindus and the Muslims are a thousand times greater when compared with the continent of Europe.

(answer is not “1″, it is more than 570)
This article lists the more than 570 states that comprise the Subcontinent. Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh are only the major players. A discussion of the more than 570 states explains the Subcontinent.

Quaid-e-Azam, Mohammed Ali Jinnah said that:

Muslim vs. Hindus” the differences in India, between the two major nations, the Hindus and the Muslims are a thousand times greater when compared with the continent of Europe. ” the differences in India, between the two major nations, the Hindus and the Muslims are a thousand times greater when compared with the continent of Europe.

” the differences in India, between the two major nations, the Hindus and the Muslims are a thousand times greater when compared with the continent of Europe.” the differences in India, between the two major nations, the Hindus and the Muslims are a thousand times greater when compared with the continent of Europe.India is not a national state, India is not a country, but a  sub-continent composed of nationalities, the two nations being Hindus and Muslims whose culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, name and nomenclature, sense of value and proportion, laws and jurisprudence, social and moral codes, customs and calendar, history and traditions, aptitudes and ambitions, outlook on life and of life are fundamentally different nay in many respects antagonistic. Mohammad Ali Jinnah

The 5000 year old ancient trade routes between Pakistan and China are being revived with modern freeways that were ocnstructed 20 years ago. 5000 years ago the Harrappan Pakistanis were trading with the ChinesePakistan existed 5000 years ago as the “Indus Valley Civilization.”

Pakistan exsited 5000 Years ago as the IVCA historical and tectonic divide existed thousands of years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization was on the banks of the Indus. The Genetic Valley Civilization is on the banks of the Ganges.

The 5000 year old ancient trade routes between Pakistan and China are being revived with modern freeways that were ocnstructed 20 years ago. 5000 years ago the

The people up the river Indus lived with the people down the river Indus lived together in 3500 BC just as they live togehter now.

“Pakistan” existed 5000 years ago. It was not called “Pakistan”. China 5000 years ago was also called something else. Egypt 5000 years ago was called something else.The word “India” comes from “Hind” or “Sind”. It was called that because of the river Sindh. The Arabs used to call all those who lived on the river and byond Sindu or Hindu. The constitutional name of the country is “Bharat”.

The great Persian naval fleets of Cyrus were defeated by the Greeks because the Iranians did not have the foresight to see the future. More than 300 ships burned in 492 BC. The Persian Empire was unable to keep the small city states of Athens and Sparta. Today ancient Persia and modern Iran faces enemies within its borders and the barbarians are at the gates of Iran on all sides.The Persian Empire included Pakistan at times. 

Timurs’ EmpireThe empire of Taimur in the 15th century included Pakistan but not todays “Bharat”. The Malay peninsula has been defiend in many way and included many states and included parts of the Subcontinent and even Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan. British Indian Empire included many countries of Asia, Afghanistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Aden ane even Iraq.

French Indian EmpireThe French “Indian” EmpireThe French Indian Empire included the Southern part of the Subcontinent, plus Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos.

Many states included. Posessions of the Dutch empire in the SubcontinentThe Dutch Indian Empire included southern part of the Subcontinent and even Indonesia. The Danish Indian Empire included parts of Southern Subcontinent.

Obviously the tug of war continues. India’s attempts to destabilize Pakistan will continue. The solution is to absorb all the Pashtun areas into Pakistan and then combine Afghansitan as Afghania into PakistanThe religious divide in the Subcontinent. The religious divide was real. This map shows the Muslim and non-Muslim population in the Subcontinent. The British Empire was a diverse land.The religious divide in the Subcontinent. The religious divide was real. This map shows the Muslim and non-Muslim population in the Subcontinent. The British Empire was a diverse land.

The British Empire does not even show half of PakistanNotice hundreds of states in the Subcontinent.

Presidencies 1893The British Indian Empire showing parts of Burma, but Baluchistan, and Pashtun areas are not included.

Indian Empiure includes Ceylon, Burma, AfghanistanThe Britsh Indian Empire map showing Afghanistan and parts of Iran and Thaliand as part of the empire.

Railway maps included BurmaMany maps different parts of of Asia showing various part of the “Indian” empire.

Many states existed. Some parts of the Subcontinent were under direct British control also.

Decoding Sir Creek challenges between Pakistan and IndiaThe boundaries kept on changing. Sometimes it included Aden, Somalia, Iraq, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka. At other times it included other parts of Asia. Sometimes it included Afghanistan, at other times it did not. Sri Lanka was part of the British Indian Empire at times.

Throughout history, the struggle for the independence of the Subcontinent has been struggle against centralism and the struggle has been waged to create for provincial autonomy. The Government of India Act of 1919 set out in clear terms the subjects which were to belong to the provincial sphere and those to the Central sphere. But both the Congress and the Muslim League boycotted the elections to the provincial and Central Legislatures held in November 1920 under the Act, because they felt that the Central vernment had still retained too much of power over the provinces.“Bharat” is the official and constitutional name of the country. “India” was never a country. It was a conglomeration of languages, tribes, states, provinces, East India Company (Company Bahadur) owned poppy fields and British owned lands. The more than 500 states and many countries including Iraq, Somalia, Aden, Burma and others formed the British “Indian” Empire. After 1947 when the British were leaving the states on the West banded together to form Pakistan and the ones in the Gangetic Civilization banded together to form “Bharat” (Constitutional name of “India.”

Throughout history, the struggle for the independence of the Subcontinent has been struggle against centralism and the struggle has been waged to create for provincial autonomy. The Government of India Act of 1919 set out in clear terms the subjects which were to belong to the provincial sphere and those to the Central sphere. But both the Congress and the Muslim League boycotted the elections to the provincial and Central Legislatures held in November 1920 under the Act, because they felt that the Central vernment had still retained too much of power over the provinces.The British Indian Empire, informally, the British Raj (rāj, lit. “rule” in Hindi) or simply British India, internationally and contemporaneously, India, was the term used synonymously for the region, the rule, and the period, from 1858 to 1947, of the British Empire on the Indian subcontinent. The region included areas of British India directly administered by the United Kingdom (contemporaneously, “British India”) as well as the princely states ruled by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown.

The princely states, which had all entered into treaty arrangements with the British Crown, were allowed a degree of local autonomy in exchange for protection and representation in international affairs by Great Britain.The British Indian Empire included the regions of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and, in addition, at various times, Aden (from 1839 to 1937), Lower Burma (from 1852) and Upper Burma (from 1886) until 1937, British Somaliland (briefly from 1884 to 1898), and the Straits Settlements (briefly from 1819 to 1867). The British Indian Empire had some ties with British possessions in the Middle East; the Indian rupee served as the currency in many parts of that region. What is now Iraq was, immediately after World War I, administered by the India Office of the British government.The first 100 years were the East India Company years.The princely states, which had all entered into treaty arrangements with the British Crown, were allowed a degree of local autonomy in exchange for protection and representation in international affairs by Great Britain.The British Indian Empire included the regions of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and, in addition, at various times, Aden (from 1839 to 1937), Lower Burma (from 1852) and Upper Burma (from 1886) until 1937, British Somaliland (briefly from 1884 to 1898), and the Straits Settlements (briefly from 1819 to 1867). The British Indian Empire had some ties with British possessions in the Middle East; the Indian rupee served as the currency in many parts of that region. What is now Iraq was, immediately after World War I, administered by the India Office of the British government.The first 100 years were the East India Company years.

the-526-states-in-the-subcontinent.gifThe British Indian Empire began in May 1858 when the British exiled Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II to Rangoon in then independent Konbaung Burma after executing most of his family, thus formally liquidating the Mughal Empire. At the same time, the British abolished the British East India Company and replaced it with direct rule under the British Crown.

” the differences in India, between the two major nations, the Hindus and the Muslims are a thousand times greater when compared with the continent of Europe.In proclaiming the new direct-rule policy to “the Princes, Chiefs, and Peoples of India”.. The Viceroy of India announced in 1858 that the government would honour former treaties with princely states and renounced the “Doctrine of Lapse”, whereby the East India Company had annexed territories of rulers who died without male heirs.

This map of 1853 “India” does not show half of Pakistan.About 40 percent of Indian territory and 20-25 percent of the population remained under the control of 562 princes. In August 1858 the British Parliament abolished the English East India Company and transferred the company’s responsibilities to the British crown. This launched a period of direct rule in India, ending the fiction of company rule as an agent of the Mughal emperor (who was tried for treason and exiled to Burma). In November 1858, in her proclamation to the “Princes, Chiefs, and Peoples of India,” Queen Victoria pledged to preserve the rule of Indian princes in return for loyalty to the crown. More than 560 such enclaves, taking in one-fourth of India’s area and one-fifth of its people, were preserved until Indian independence in 1947.

PakistanThe Pakistan that was proposed in 1940

Continent of Dinia and dependencies Large Ch. Rehmat Ali map

A discussion of the sovereign and independent Princely States at the time of independence on August 15, 1947 is very pertinent to understand why “India” is a very ephemeral word.

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