A post is extensively shared on social media, claiming that India is an abbreviation for “Independent Nation Declared In August”.
The post reads: INDIA नाम तो अंग्रेजों की देन है जिसका मतलब है INDEPENDENT NATION DECLARED IN AUGUST
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FALSE.
The NM team found that the same claim has been shared on social media since 2015. Earlier, it was shared with an image, saying: “Britishers gave this name to India after Independence which means Independent Nation Declared In August.”
Our team searched the web to find if any report stating that India is an abbreviation for ‘Independent Nation Declared In August’, but failed.
Looking at the facts of India’s history, India got Independence in 1947 but the name ‘India’ has existed since before. The Quit India Movement which was launched in 1942 (5 years before India got Independence) had the word “India” in it.
The Government of India Act 1858, an Act of the British Parliament that transferred the government and territories of the East India Company to the British Crown, also had the word “India”.
Also, according to many news articles, “The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the old Persian word Hindus and later stems from the Sanskrit word Sindhu.”
Thus, it is confirmed that India is not the abbreviation for ‘Independent Nation Declared In August’.
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