Re: Pakistani’s have a crisis of identity?
how exactly was it hindustan?
Before the Mughals, it was a bunch of independent kingdoms with a large one dominating central India and with the South and Bengal and Sri Lanka being seperate kingdoms and Arabs controlling what is today Pakistan
Mughals ruled India from 12th Century until 1750
After that British ruled India from 1750 till 1947
As for Hind being mentioned in Hadeeths
Hind comes from Sindh and the name India came from Indus river.
Sindh people were in contact with Alexander the Great, later the Persians and then the Romans and later on the Arabs.
So the inhabitants of Sindh when translated into Arabic became Hind. When these maps were taken by the Crusaders in the 11th Century from the Middle East, the word became a misnomer for India.
When the British came, they used, Hindustan an English word created during the British Raj to describe their colony in India and later used by Jinnah