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  1. Sep 5, 2023 · During British colonial rule (approximately 1757-1947), the British referred to the Indian subcontinent as "India." This term was derived from the river Indus, which marked the western boundary of ...

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  3. Sep 5, 2023 · During the Constituent Assembly debates the “Name and territory of the Union” was taken up for discussion on September 17, 1949. Right from the time the first article was read out as “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States”, a division arose among the members.

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  4. An adaptation of the South Korean film, Ode to My Father (2014), it traces India's post-independence history from the perspective of a common man, and follows his life from the age of 8 to 70. Bharat was theatrically released in India on 5 June 2019, on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

  5. Sep 6, 2023 · The name ‘Bharat’ wasn’t there in the first draft of India’s Constitution introduced by the chairman of the drafting committee, BR Ambedkar, on November 4, 1948. Although some members flagged the omission of a native name, the debate on this took place almost a year later when the work on finalising the text was coming to an end.

  6. Sep 6, 2023 · The term ‘Bharat’ has been in use since millenniums and the term also appears in Jain and Hindu mythologies as “Bharat Varsh", region of Bharata. However, the most popular mythology behind the name Bharat goes back to the time of the Great Emperor Bharata who was the ruler of the whole subcontinent.

  7. Sep 6, 2023 · India, that is Bharat: How the Constituent Assembly chose. The first debate on Article 1 was to begin on November 17, 1948. However, on the suggestion of Govind Ballabh Pant, the discussion on the name was postponed to a later date.

  8. Sep 5, 2023 · Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced India with the Sanskrit word ‘Bharat’ in dinner invitations sent for the Group of 20 summit, in a move that echoes with his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts to scrub away what it sees are colonial-era names.

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