On September 18, India can be called Bharat. On this date, the parliament meets in an extraordinary session, at which it is expected that with a change in the constitution, the populous Asian country will change its name.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has even already used the future name of India when writing invitations to world leaders for the G-20 forum, AP reports.
Supreme Court Bar Association President Adish Agarwala explained that the Modi government had fulfilled all the legal requirements for the name to be changed. Our country will blossom much more when it is called Bharat. Only the British call us India, commented Agarwala, quoted by 20minutos.
Bharat is one of the ancient names of India, which in recent years has begun to assert itself in the political and public space of the country.
The government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word on dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s G20 summit, a move that reflects efforts by his Hindu nationalist party to remove what it sees as colonial-era names. AP reported. Indian President Draupadi Murmu is billed as “President of Bharat” instead of “President of India” in the invitation sent to G20 attendees.
The country of more than 1.4 billion people is officially known by two names, India and Bharat, but the former is most commonly used both domestically and internationally. “Bharat” is an ancient Sanskrit word that many historians believe dates back to early Hindu texts. The word also means “India” in Hindi.
The name change was supported by representatives of Modi’s Indian People’s Party. They claim that the name “India” was introduced by the British colonialists and is a “symbol of slavery”. The British ruled India for about 200 years until the country gained independence in 1947, AP recalls.
However, Indian opposition parties criticized the move. “Although there is no constitutional objection to calling India ‘Bharat’, which is one of the two official names of the country, I hope the Government will not be so foolish as to abandon ‘India’ altogether, which has incalculable brand value, built over centuries”, commented opposition MP Shashi Tharoor in Aix.
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