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Hindustan (Hindi ??????????? [Hindustan], Urdu ???????? [Hindustan], [??n?d??st?a?n]) is one of the popular names of India. Though the meaning of Hindustan has evolved over the years, today it refers primarily to India.[1] historical term, usually applied to the Ganges Plain of North India, between the Himalayas in the north and the Deccan plateau in the south. Used variably throughout Indian history—generally in contradistinction to the Deccan of peninsular India—it gradually came to mean the whole of N India from the Punjab to Assam. The term Hindustan has also been applied to the whole Indian subcontinent. Hindustan is derived from the Persian word Hindu, which is itself is derived from Sindhu, Sanskrit for the Indus River [2][3]. This together with a popular suffix -stan, which is also derived from Persian (stan), meaning land[4][5] gave birth to the word 'Hindustan', which was rendered as Hindusthan [6]. Literally, the word means land of the Hindus. The term Hindustan retains its importance as it gives culture identity to India and the Indian Subcontinent ethos, amidst the varied culture of India; along with another word that evolved from it - the adjective, Hindustani, used to define the people of Hindustan, their language, Hindustani language, and also their music, Hindustani classical music.
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