english vs hindi
WHEN India invited delegates attending the G20 summit in September 2023 to dinner with “the President of Bharat”, rather than “the President of India”, it may have looked to the world like a simple case of postcolonial course correction.
The word “India” is, after all, an exonym – a place name given by outsiders. In this case, the name came from the British, who ruled the subcontinent from 1858 to 1947, a violent period of colonialism that later came to be called “the British Raj”.
“Bharat”, on the other hand, is the word for “India” in Hindi, by far the most spoken language in the
