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The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa.
The country, which comfortably juggles multiple names of ancient and modern origin, could be renamed, say reports. But what are these names and where did they come from?
The constitution adopted in 1950 made India a democratic republic with Westminster style parliamentary system of government, both at federal and state level respectively. The democracy has been sustained since then. India's sustained democratic freedoms are unique among the world's newly independent states. [2]
Among antient texts, the Indian subcontinent came to be called Bharat under the rule of Bharata. [5] The Maurya Empire was the first to unite all of India, and South Asia (including parts of Afghanistan). [6] Much of India has also been unified by later empires, such as the Mughal Empire, [7] Maratha Empire. [8]
Both India and Bharat are used officially in the nation of 1.4 billion people, which has more than 20 official languages. Bharat is also the Hindi word for India and is used interchangeably ...
In Hindi, the constitution replaces India with Bharat everywhere, except the part defining the country’s names, which says in Hindi, “Bharat, that is India, shall be a Union of States.”
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meeting the President of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Xi Jinping, in Wuhan, China on April 27, 2018 China and India have historically maintained peaceful relations for thousands of years of recorded history, but the harmony of their relationship has varied in modern times, after the Chinese Communist Party's victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949 ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week's Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects ...