Nkrumah Was Right
Superstar
Will be the African Union change its name to the Alkebulan Union?
Arabic is not from Africa. It’s from Arabia, which is a peninsula in Asia.
India may be renamed as Bharat in special session of Parliament on September 18.
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Arabic is not from Africa. It’s from Arabia, which is a peninsula in Asia.
Cat piss martini
Veteran
they should name it ShyitPalms.
Prince.Skeletor
Don’t Be Like He-Man
True, and most of them sales probably goes to Caribbean familiesThat's because you forgot to account for them curry sales
Prince.Skeletor
Don’t Be Like He-Man
Bharat means India in hindi
Bharat was the original name
If they wanted a Hindu state they would call it Hindustan
The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
Hindi word for stank
Secure Da Bag
Veteran
Breh. You know what I'm saying.
But fine. If you want to be pedantic, Ardhi-Kwanza Union.
thats actually the namesake of their mother goddess that represents the land 
Cmon breh.
The whole reason why there’s a billion and a half of them is because they exist in the Himalaya’s rain shadow. That, combined with a relatively flat landmass and year round warm weather makes for favorable crop growing conditions.
But you claimed that their 'favorable climate' is promising for them going forward. It's the opposite - they're going to collapse under their own weight and literally every aspect of global warming (higher temps, worse storms, more inconsistent rain, higher sea level) is already starting to fukk them over heavy.
Original name of what? Bharat wasn't the name of the whole region, just a part. South Indians never called themselves "Bharat", neither did northeast Indians, neither did Muslims. It's only been used generally since 1950, while India had been used for far longer.
NoirDynosaur
Yurrrrrrrrrr
So where does the name ‘Bharat’ come from?
The roots of “Bharat”, “Bharata”, or “Bharatvarsha” are traced back to Puranic literature, and to the epic Mahabharata. The Puranas describe Bharata as the land between the “sea in the south and the abode of snow in the north”.Social scientist Catherine Clémentin-Ojha explained Bharata in the sense of a religious and socio-cultural entity, rather than a political or geographical one. ‘Bharata’ refers to the “supraregional and subcontinental territory where the Brahmanical system of society prevails”, Clémentin-Ojha wrote in her 2014 article, ‘India, that is Bharat…’: One Country, Two Names (South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal).
Bharata is also the name of the ancient king of legend who was the ancestor of the Rig Vedic tribe of the Bharatas, and by extension, the progenitor of all peoples of the subcontinent.
Writing in January 1927, Jawaharlal Nehru alluded to the “fundamental unity of India” that has endured from “the remote past”: “a unity of a common faith and culture. India was Bharata, the holy land of the Hindus, and it is not without significance that the great places of Hindu pilgrimage are situated in the four corners of India — the extreme South overlooking Ceylon, the extreme West washed by the Arabian Sea, the East facing the Bay of Bengal and the North in the Himalayas.” (Selected Works Vol. 2)
By the time of the early Mughals (16th century), the name ‘Hindustan’ was used to describe the entire Indo-Gangetic plain. Historian Ian J Barrow in his article, ‘From Hindustan to India: Naming Change in Changing Names’ (Journal of South Asian Studies, 2003) wrote that “in the mid-to-late eighteenth century, Hindustan often referred to the territories of the Mughal emperor, which comprised much of South Asia”.
From the late 18th century onwards, British maps increasingly began to use the name ‘India’, and ‘Hindustan’ started to lose its association with all of South Asia. “Part of the appeal of the term India may have been its Graeco-Roman associations, its long history of use in Europe, and its adoption by scientific and bureaucratic organisations such as the Survey of India,” Barrow wrote.
“The adoption of India suggests how colonial nomenclature signalled changes in perspectives and helped to usher in an understanding of the subcontinent as a single, bounded and British political territory,” he added.
TLDR: India was a remixed version given by British colonizer. India is going back to their roots
India, that is Bharat: A short history of the nation’s names, from the Rig Veda to the Constitution of India
There is speculation of an official change in the name of the country from India to Bharat, even though Article 1 of the Constitution uses the two names interchangeably: “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.”
indianexpress.com
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
Germany = Deutschland
Low End Derrick
Veteran
Give a fukk about them going forward.
I'm talking about the present. One of the reasons why they're productivity powerhouse now is due to their favorable climate.
humminbird
Veteran
might as well do this now and add it to the list of unexpected moments of history that happened in the last 4 years
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
They should call it the Harlem UnionBreh. You know what I'm saying.
But fine. If you want to be pedantic, Ardhi-Kwanza Union.
