Why India is called Hindustan?

The ancient culture of Hindus flourished on the banks of Sindhu river... the foreigners deformed the word sindhu as Hindu and gave the name Hindustaan to this continent called the inhabitants as Hindus The real name of India is Bharat. Hinduism is name given to the ancient relgion Sanatan dharma

because that was what it was called lots of years back...the name still has a place in people's place..so it's stuck around.

OUr neighbours most of them ISTANS like Pakistan, Beluchistan, Afghanisthan. We are hindus here in India and hence they call it as HINDUSTAN.

The term Hindustan is derived from the term Hindu (see ff.) and stan (meaning, a land). The term Hindu is derived from Sanskrit Sindhu (??????, i.e. the Indus River in particular, or any river or water-body in general). In the Rigveda, theoretically the holiest Hindu scripture, the Indo-Aryans mention their land as Sapta Sindhu (the land of the seven rivers, one of them being the Indus; sapta=seven). This corresponds to hapta-hindu in the Avesta (Vendidad: Fargard 1.18)—the holiest scriptures of the Iranian Zoroastrians. The term was used for people who lived in the Indian sub-continent around or beyond the river Sindhu.

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india is a country with majority of hindus so she is called hindustan stan means place in hindi

because its a place of hindu.

cause in india ,,, major people are hindu ,, & as we all know that sthan called place ,, so hindu + sthan = hindustan ,, A place for hindu is called hindustan

because india was called hindusthan before...