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Jai Hind (Hindi: जय् हिन्द्, IPA: [dʒəj ɦɪnd]) is a salutation and slogan that means "Hail India", "Long live India", [1] or literally "Victory [for] India" as originally coined by Champakaraman Pillai.
In contemporary Persian and Hindi-Urdu, the term Hindustan has recently come to mean the Republic of India. The same is the case with Arabic, where al-Hind is the name for the Republic of India. "Hindustan", as the term Hindu itself, entered the English language in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the term as used in English referred to ...
This combined with the Avestan suffix -stān (cognate to Sanskrit "sthān", both meaning "place") [8] results in Hindustan, as the land on the other side (from Persia) of the Indus. Zindabad (may [idea, person, country] live forever) is a typical Urdu and Persian suffix that is placed after a person or a country name. It is used to express ...
Jai Hind (alternatively, Jaihind) is a salutation and slogan that means "Victory to India". Jai Hind may also refer to: Jai Hind, an Indian newspaper; Jaihind, a 1994 Indian film; Jai Hind, a 2012 Indian film; Jai Hind, a 2019 Indian film; JaiHind TV, a Malayalam channel based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
The Jai Hind postmark was the first commemorative postmark of Independent India, and was issued on the day of independence, 15 August 1947. The post mark was withdrawn on 31 December 1947 but reintroduced at Girdikot Post Office , Jodhpur in June 1948.
Chempakaraman Pillai (alias Venkidi; [1] 15 September 1891 – 26 May 1934) was an Indian-born political activist and revolutionary. [2] Born in Thiruvananthapuram, to Tamil parents, he left for Europe as a youth, where he spent the rest of his active life as an Indian nationalist and revolutionary.
Abid Hasan Safrani, IFS, born Zain-al-Abdin Hasan, was an officer of the Indian National Army (INA) and later, after 1947, an Indian diplomat.He famously introduced the slogan 'Jai Hind', which translates to 'victory belongs to India' that is used for official and semi-official purposes including army salutes, moral upliftment and in pop culture.
Rabindranath Tagore, the author and composer of the national anthems of India and Bangladesh Rabindranath Tagore reciting "Jana Gana Mana". Jana Gana Mana (lit. ' [Ruler of] the minds of the people ') is the national anthem of the Republic of India.