As it is clear, these 2 words are in a way symbols of slavery. And a slave is not master of its own will and lacks self awareness. Word Hindu and Indian, apart from their literal meaning, gives a sense of Idol worshipers and Brown skin primitive people respectively, which is not true at all.
We were not just blinded by faith of idol worship, neither were superstitious nor believed in myths. Actually idol worship is a Greek thing that came along with changed Buddhism. Greeks transformed symbols associated with Buddha and Bodhisatva into idols and as a cultural exchange it came to this land. Now people of this land found humanization of symbols fascinating and started building temples. This tells us that temples were just our expression of art and we associated some religious importance to them. So called Hindu Dharma is now totally based on what was earlier a mere art expression. This is due to killing of saints and destruction of literature of this land after 13th century. Now what remained were these temples (most of those were also destroyed) became the religion basis of the people of this land. The slaves were in oblivion of their past, the learned were murdered and no one to teach the true Dharma! So the naming and a new path people of this land took are contemporary. Thus the word Hindu has dual connotation.
India, the new name (the popular among 2 names) is the gift of some people in constitution assembly who favoured India over Bharat. While the word Bharat is purely indigenous as it is 1st mentioned in Rig Ved and used for describing this land and then there is a whole historical documentation by name MahaBharat, India has origin in charters of British Emperors and official documents of British Parliament and similar documents of other Europeans. I am unable to understand how these evidences weighed less in minds of assembly members who favoured the name India.
Now back to main point : Brown skin and primitive - Indian. We know we are not only Indians in this world. American and Australian aboriginals are also called Indian. Do you think we share all aspects of life and culture with them? Are we all Brown skinned? No we all are not brown skinned, we actually have all shades. Are we primitive? We actually till a time had some state of the art technologies, mathematics, human science and earth sciences, macro sciences, astronomy etc. name it and you will have a documented research on it in ancient times. How we are primitive? Our ignorance is now keeping us behind.
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We were not just blinded by faith of idol worship, neither were superstitious nor believed in myths. Actually idol worship is a Greek thing that came along with changed Buddhism. Greeks transformed symbols associated with Buddha and Bodhisatva into idols and as a cultural exchange it came to this land. Now people of this land found humanization of symbols fascinating and started building temples. This tells us that temples were just our expression of art and we associated some religious importance to them. So called Hindu Dharma is now totally based on what was earlier a mere art expression. This is due to killing of saints and destruction of literature of this land after 13th century. Now what remained were these temples (most of those were also destroyed) became the religion basis of the people of this land. The slaves were in oblivion of their past, the learned were murdered and no one to teach the true Dharma! So the naming and a new path people of this land took are contemporary. Thus the word Hindu has dual connotation.
India, the new name (the popular among 2 names) is the gift of some people in constitution assembly who favoured India over Bharat. While the word Bharat is purely indigenous as it is 1st mentioned in Rig Ved and used for describing this land and then there is a whole historical documentation by name MahaBharat, India has origin in charters of British Emperors and official documents of British Parliament and similar documents of other Europeans. I am unable to understand how these evidences weighed less in minds of assembly members who favoured the name India.
Now back to main point : Brown skin and primitive - Indian. We know we are not only Indians in this world. American and Australian aboriginals are also called Indian. Do you think we share all aspects of life and culture with them? Are we all Brown skinned? No we all are not brown skinned, we actually have all shades. Are we primitive? We actually till a time had some state of the art technologies, mathematics, human science and earth sciences, macro sciences, astronomy etc. name it and you will have a documented research on it in ancient times. How we are primitive? Our ignorance is now keeping us behind.
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