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Exactly!
The name 'India' HAS BECOME a part of OUR cultural heritage.
That is our culture. We incorporate stuff from all over the world. That's the great thing about our Indian culture. It is all-inclusive.
Nonsense!
You reverted from Bombay to Mumbai, Calcutta to Kolkata, Bangalore to Bengaluru.
By logical extension, you should revert from India to Bharat or Hindustan.
You conveniently skipped my post about the 'Mughal heritage' of India.
I skipped it because it is not relevant to the debate about India and IVC.
Well I like the name India, so it stays. Frankly its a pretty silly debate going on here in terms of what India and Pakistan should call themselves, and nothing to do with the topic. Please stay on topic (to Indians as well).
The original topic that Atanz wanted to discuss was that why don't Pakistanis take more pride in their ancient non-Islamic past(Hindu/Buddhist/IVC, etc)? This was my reply to the topic that is meant to be discussed:
The modern Indian use of the name India has everything to do with the topic. As the OP stated, when most people talk about Harappa or Mohenjodaro, they think 'India', not 'Pakistan', because those names are tied to ancient India.
The reason some Pakistanis reject the ancient heritage is subconsciously because of that association with the word 'India'. If modern India were called Bharat, there would be no confusion with ancient India, no wholesale appropriation of all the ancient heritage, and Pakistanis would be more willing to accept that heritage. The word India would regain its ancient meaning as 'the land of the Indus river'.
It's like telling all Muslims in the Indian subcontinent to abandon Islam because it came from outside.
But we are not the ones rejecting foreign influences. We embrace both Harappa and Islam.
You guys are the ones going around changing the names of cities to their indigenous names. Take it to the logical conclusion and change the name of the country itself.