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The difference is that China as a nation has existed for thousands of years. The borders have not always been the same of course, but the nation existed.
Whereas the concept of India is a relatively new one, named after the Indus River which existed in British India, not in modern India. Today, the Indus River flows almost entirely through Pakistan.
Yet the British Empire named many different people across the planet with the name Indus, not only Indians, but Red Indians, West Indians etc. that also existed within the British Empire.
Is it??!!....your knowledge or rather lack of it should not change the history... the name India come from not from British but rather Greek..first known mention of 'India'(land beyond Indus) comes from Greek Historian Heorodotus(in book of Heorodotus) who lived in 500 BC.
Alexander, who conquered the present day Pakistani lands in 327 BC, actually came looking for land called Ἰνδία (India in ancient greek),
But then again its is the same story, empires changed, maps changed, but this entire subcontinent was called India to an outsider.