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 alon...