How Hindustan became India
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Hindustan Is Not a Continent
In the seventeenth century, a lot of an idea that hindustan may actually be the continent. But precisely at the end of the seventeenth, early eighteenth century, there is a move to say, nonononono. And by the mid eighteenth century, while the mogels are really in deli, so hindustan is really just deli. After 18 57, you know, the empress queen victoria, when she becomes the empress of india, there is no mention of hindustan. Hindustan doesn't exist even though, the person that she deposed, bahadsha zoper, who as the last, so called, last
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