Who named India as India?

Answer 1

The English term is from Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), via Latin India.

Latin India is coined first by Lucian, a Greek novelist of 2nd century. Indía in Byzantine (Koine Greek) ethnography denotes the region beyond the Indus (Ἰνδός) river in Pakistan. The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word Hindu. The latter term stems from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, Indus River.

The name India was known in Old English, and was used in King Alfred's translation of Orosius.

In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered Early Modern English as Indie. The name India then came back to English usage from the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese.

Sanskrit indu "drop (of Soma)", also a term for the Moon, is unrelated, but has sometimes been erroneously connected, listed by, among others, Colonel James Todd in his Annals of Rajputana. Todd describes ancient India as under control of tribes claiming descent from the Moon, or "Indu" (referring to Chandravanshi Rajputs).

Answer 2

The name India is derived from Indus, which is derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit, Sindhu, the historic local name for the Indus River.

The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi, the people of the Indus.

Maybe it is not possible to say who exactly gave the name India.

Answer 3

When Europeans arrived in India they could spell Hindustan or Bharat. Hence, they named the land as the land of Indus. Thus, it got its name India

Answer 4

After the Indus River. It is also called Hammeet river