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The vast subcontinent of India was known in the past as BHARATVARSHA,the land of the bharataa,bordered in the north by the Himalayas and by the oceans in the south. The name INDIA was first applied by the Persians to the region watered by the sindhu(River Indus). The Greeks who referred to river Sindhu as Indos subsequently borrowed the term from the Persians. Thus hindu in Persian and Indos in Greek are corrupt forms of sindhu.The musl