India is the name of this region used in roman history and books.
The "sindh" is the name river indus. "sind" in persian and arabic accent becomes "hind" when roman get to know about "hind" from persians and arabics, they say it "ind" as they cannot say "hind". Now sind to hind to ind.
Now river name in roman ends with "us" so "indus" and country name ends with "ia" so india.
India was named after the river Indus.
India was named after the Indus River. It is considered a holy river, and one that has given life to civilization in the region.
It is derived from Indus, which is derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the historic local appellation for the Indus River.
The Indus River was very important to the people who lived there.
There are a lot of rivers in India, such as the Ganges, Indus, Tapti, and Narmada.
It's known as Ganga , Bhagirathi , Sursari and more ;)
because it is the bigest river in India
There was no explorer named after the Hudson river. The Hudson river was named after the explorer, Henry Hudson.
longest river of india is krishna widest river of india is ganges
It is india
India is the world's largest country named after a river. [Indus river]
India, which is named after the indus river.
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It was named by Colonel Robert Gordon who was commander of the Dutch East India Company garrison at Cape Town. It was so named in honour of William of Orange.
people got there water from the river.....and it makes a natural border for India personally i think it should have been named for the Ganges because that is India's most holy river! hope that helps!:)
Their earliest interest was to find out if the Hudson River (which was un-named at the time) would lead them to the Northwest Passage and India.
It's known as Ganga , Bhagirathi , Sursari and more ;)
"brahmaputra river " is known as the red river of India