"India" is used only in English, "Yindu" in Mandarin, "indo" in Greek. All these words are exonym.
Just like how it is "korea" in English but in Korean it is "Hangug".
Similarly, it is "India" in English and "भारत/भारतम्" in hindi, Sanskrit, kannada etc.
"उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेष्चैव दक्षिणम्। वर्शं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र संततिः ।।"
"The country that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is Bharata, there dwell the descendants of Bharat".
--Vishnu Purana (400BCE)
@Maira La
Well, the Qing empire wasn't "Chinese", it was formed by the Manchus and the Han people were subjugated by them just like how Indians were subjugated to european powers (British). So if you claim your territories based on the empire formed by a foreign occupier ( in this case the Manchus) then i...
can you point out the kingdom in the maps that i attached which recognised itself as "China"? Just like you attached a map of politically divided Indian states and asked me to point out which of them was "India".
if you consider an empire with a central government to be a country then India became a country with the formation of the Mauryan empire in 302 BCE which had a centralised army, bureaucracy and government. While the Qin Dynasty in china formed 80 years later. Thus by your logic India is older...
Chinese friends should understand that before china became a country in 1949 ( it did not exist before that), Indian empires influenced the landmass that is known today as china by civilising them by giving them Buddhism and Buddhist texts. Otherwise the people of your country would have no...