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Oikonyms in Western, Central, South, and Southeast Asia can be grouped according to various components, reflecting common linguistic and cultural histories. [1] Toponymic study is not as extensive as it is for placenames in Europe and Anglophone parts of the world, but the origins of many placenames can be determined with a fair degree of certainty.
Indian names are based on a variety of systems and naming conventions, which vary from region to region. In Indian culture, names hold profound significance and play a crucial role in an individual's life. The importance of names is deeply rooted in the country's diverse and ancient cultural heritage.
Etymology of Selected Words of Indian Language Origin Archived 2014-02-20 at the Wayback Machine in Colonial & Postcolonial Literary Dialogues
When it comes to Indian baby girl names, trends are clear: Names inspired by cities and goddesses and names that end in -ya are getting more popular.
The terms Indos (Ἰνδός) for the Indus River and Indian are found in Hecataeus of Miletus and Herodotus's writings. The loss of the /h/ sound in Hinduš was likely because of the Greek dialects spoken in Asia Minor and the word became Indos. Hecataeus used the term "India" and "Indians" strictly for the people in Sindh (Ancient Pakistan) only.
South Asian literature has a long history, having some of the oldest recorded pieces of literature, dating back to the later stages of the Bronze Age in India.Transmitted in Sanskrit, Rig veda is an ancient and sacred collection of Hindu texts originally composed between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes that were migrating from modern Afghanistan to northern India. [3]
Tianzhu (Chinese: 天竺; pinyin: Tiānzhú) is the historical ancient Chinese name for the Indian subcontinent which means "Centre of Heaven".. Tianzhu was also referred to as Wutianzhu (五天竺, literal meaning is "Five Indias"), because there were five geographical regions on the Indian subcontinent known to the Chinese: Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western India.
The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer who was an Indian, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate.He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas.