'Bharat welcomes the delegates as the President of the G20,' Narendra Modi said in Hindi as he addressed world leaders at the summit.
"Bharat welcomes the delegates as the President of the G20," Narendra Modi said in Hindi as he addressed world leaders at the summit.Modi sat behind a "Bharat" table nameplate as he opened the summit in New Delhi. Photo: Reuters.
India is also called Bharat, Bharata, Hindustan - its pre-colonial names - in Indian languages and these are used interchangeably by the public and officially. As Modi declared the summit in New Delhi open on Saturday, he sat behind a table nameplate that read"Bharat", while the G20 logo had both names -"Bharat" written in Hindi and"India" in English.Speaking in Hindi, the language spoken by a majority of the population, Modi said"Bharat welcomes the delegates as the President of the G20".
While some supporters of the name Bharat say"India" was given by British colonisers, historians say the name predates colonial rule by centuries.
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