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  2. List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies

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    The most widely accepted origin of the name Sikkim is that it is a combination of two words in Limbu: su ("new") and khyim ("palace" or "house"), in reference to the palace built by the state's first ruler, Phuntsog Namgyal. The Tibetan name for Sikkim is Denjong, which means "valley of rice". Tamil Nadu (23) தமிழ்நாடு

  3. States of India by Urdu speakers - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] According to the census guidelines, "Urdu" does not broadly refer to the Hindustani language, but the literary-register of the macrolanguage, hence accounting Hindi as a separate language. Urdu is officially recognised in India and has official status in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to which the language has remained deeply ...

  4. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the reign of Aurangzeb in the early 1700s, the common language around Delhi began to be referred to as Zaban-e-Urdu, [33] a name derived from the Turkic word ordu (army) or orda and is said to have arisen as the "language of the camp", or "Zaban-i-Ordu" means "Language of High camps" [32] or natively "Lashkari Zaban" means ...

  5. List of Indian state symbols - Wikipedia

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    State language: తెలుగు Telugu: Telugu is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra and Telangana, where it is also the official language. Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), [4] Telugu is the most spoken language of the Dravidian language family, and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of ...

  6. Hyderabad State - Wikipedia

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    [28] [29] [30] His reign saw the official language of Hyderabad State shift from Persian to Urdu, a change implemented in the 1880s during the short tenure of Prime Minister Salar Jung II. [31] The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway was established during his reign to connect Hyderabad State to the rest of British India.

  7. Hindustani etymology - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, is the vernacular form of two standardized registers used as official languages in India and Pakistan, namely Hindi and Urdu.It comprises several closely related dialects in the northern, central and northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent but is mainly based on Khariboli of the Delhi region.

  8. List of Indian state emblems - Wikipedia

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    India is a country in South Asia.It is made up of 28 states and 8 union territories. Most of the states and union territories of India have their own state emblem, seal or coat of arms which is used as an official governmental symbol, while four states and five union territories continue to use the National Emblem of India for official purposes.

  9. Names for India - Wikipedia

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    Jinnah strongly opposed the use of the name India by Hindustan because the name India, which had a long history, could cause confusion and mislead about history. The history of historic India, the Indus Valley (Pakistan), could be mixed up with the history of the modern Republic of India. The name was a reminder of history and known around the ...