Bharat Ratan- P V Kane disagreed with English nomenclature of Bharat as India .

Bharat Ratna MM Dr. P. V. Kane (1880–1972)

Fellow of the University of Bombay from 1919 to 1928; 

 was awarded  Campbell Memorial Gold Medal in 1941 by the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society a

  ‘Mahamahopadhyaya’ by the British Government 

 Honorary D.Litt. by Allahabad University in 1942. 

National Professor of Indology in 1959.

Sr Advocate Supreme Court of India 

Judge, High Court Bombay

Member , Rajya Sabha 

The word Hindu (in the form 'Hindu') appears to have been applied by the Persian Emperors Darius (522-486 B.C.) and Xerxes (486-465 B.C.) to the territory and people to the west and to the east of the great river Sindhu, While the Greeks referred to the people in the same region as 'Indoi', from which comes the word 'Indians'  and that the Indians constituted the 20^th province of the Persian Empire and paid 360 talents of gold dust as tribute. The word 'Sindhu' occurs more than two hundred times in the Rgveda alone in the singular as well as in the plural. The words 'Sindhavah' and 'Sapta Sindhun' occur more frequently than Sindhu in the singular. Indra is often described as having let loose the seven Sindhus for flowing (Rg. I.32.12, II.12.12, IV.28.1, VIII.96.1, X.43.3). In such passages what is meant is the great river Sindhu and its tributaries (or possibly its seven mouths.

Manu passages of the Rgveda where the singular is employed refer to the river Sindhu alone (as in Rg. II.15.6, IV.30.12, V.4.9 &c). In Rg. II.15.6 it is said that Indra made Sindhu flow northwards, This would obviously refer to the first part of the river flowing northward from the Himalayas. Panini uses the word 'Sindhu' as the name of a country in IV.3.93 ('Saindhava' means one who or whose ancestors lived in the Sindhu country). For the fluctuating limits of Aryawarta, vide H. of Dh. Vol. II pp. 11-16 and p. 1525, note 2483 above, where Rg. passages about Bharatas are set out and it is shown that the Puranas speak of Bharata-varsa as of the same extent as that of modern India and the name is said to have been due to Bharata, son of Dusyanta and Sakuntala. Bharatavarsa occurs in the Hathigumpha Inscripton of Kharavela (line 10 on p.79) which cannot be assigned to a date later than the 1^st century B.C. It has been shown above (p.1016 n.1649) that Asoka in one of his edicts refers to his kingdom as Jambudvipa. Even in these days in the rather long sankalpa (declaration) at the beginning of a religious act in Maharastra, occur the words 'Jambudvipe Bharatavarse Bauddhavatare Godaverya daksine tire' &c. Therefore, the proper word to be used by us for our country should be Bharatavarsa.

 It may be said that our culture and civilization had throughout the past ages a geographical background. The Constitution of India has recognized this in its very first Article which runs 'India that is Bharat, shall be a union of States'. In view of the fact, however, that the words 'Hindu' and 'Indian' have been employed for centuries by foreign as well as our own writers.

(volume 5 part 2 History of Dharmashashtra)