Use Bharat as the official name for India !!

"We are neither 'Indian' nor 'Hindu'.
Long ago, the Western geographical border of the ancient land of Bharat was the river Sindhu. 
The Sapt Sindhu (the seven rivers) has been referred to in the Rig Ved over a 100 times.
Since in Persian "H" replaces the "S", Sindhu became Hindus in Old Persian. Therefore; in the Iranian Zend Avesta you can see the name Hapta Hindu. (Instead of Sapt Sindhu) 
Persians referred to the people on the other side of the river Sindhu as people of the Hindus which now has become simply "Hindu", "Hindus", and the religion as "Hinduism".
So then what is the native name for this religion? Now the commonly and widely accepted name is, "Sanatan Dharma", the Eternal Laws of Nature (simply put). I have also heard the less common term, Brahmanism, and I personally like to use the term, "Vedic wisdom".

The ancient Greek borrowed the name Hindus and dropped the "H" which is typical of the Greek language and referred to the river as Indos, which turned into Latin as Indus. The name, Indos, is used in Megasthenes's book 'Indica' for the mighty river crossed by Alexander based on Nearchus's contemporaneous account.
The Greeks referred to the people beyond the Indus river as Indoi. The name 'India' comes from the word Indus. 
The native name for this land is 'BHARAT'!
This is also the name used in the constitution and it's the official name for the country.
The Sanskrit name for the Republic is Bharat Ganarajyam.
Bharat is in honor of a legendary emperor Bharata, the son of Shakuntala and King Dushyant. He is also known as Bharata Chakravarti.
Bharata comes from the Sanskrit root 'Bha', for "brilliance" and Bharata means "to be maintained of fire (Agni)".
Another meaning of Bharata is, "one who is engaged in the search for knowledge."

Contributed by: Vinita Dubey Pande This article have been taken from The Internet Hindus !!!