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    ny Concept of Bharatvarsha as per Vedic tradition According to the History of India’s Geography; the land of seven rivers, the Rig Veda’s 18" hymn of seventh book describes about the terrible war which is known as ‘Dasharajna’ or battle of ten kings. The war was fought between ten powerful tribes who plotted to overthrow King Sudasa of the Bharata tribe of Trtsu Dynasty. This battle took place on the river Ravi in Punjab. As a result, Sudasa achieved a great thumping victory over the confederacy of ten kings. Which further led to the popularity of King Sudasa and people eventually started identifying themselves as members of the Bharata tribe. The name ‘Bharata’ stuck on the mouth of people and ultimately named as ‘Bharat Varsha’ meaning the land of Bharata. Concept of Bharatvarsha as per epic tradition According to Mahabharata the popular story states that India was called Bharatvarsha after the king named Bharata Chakravarti. Bharata was a legendary emperor and the founder of Bharata Dynasty and an ancestor of the Pandavas and Kauravas. He was son of King Dushyanta of Hastinapur and Queen Sakuntala. Also, a descendant of Kshatriya Varna. Bharata had conquered all of Greater India, united in to a single political entity which was named after him as “Bharatvarsha”’. Concept of Bharatvarsha as per puranic tradition... According to the Vishnu Purana,"The country that lies north of the ocean and the south of the snowy mountains is called Bharat for there dwell the descendants of the Bharat." Bharata was a king highly praised in Puranas. As per the contents of various Puranas, Bharatvarsh was a land which formed the part of a larger unit called Jambu-dvipa. Bharatvarsha on Jambu-divipa (the continent) was considered to be the innermost of the seven concentric islands or the continents into which the earth, as conceived in the Puranas, was supposed to have been divided. In epics and some of the Purana, the whole Jambu-divpa is called the Bharatvarsha. Concept of Bharatvarsha in the making of Modern India In modern India there emerge new ways of viewing Indian past and has shown how the old Puranic conception of Bharata acquired a new meaning for the Hindu intelligentsia during the colonial period. By the mid-nineteenth century the educated Hindus called ‘Bharat’ was the territory mapped and organized by the British under the name ‘India’. The old and native name Bharatabecame a workable concept for the national cause despite the forcefulness with which the British on of ‘India’ —and all it entailed in terms of Spatial and ot ception ity —was propagated and imposed yitical sedhatt signified the birth of a new India, with whose Br aii and state the Hindus felt a sense of identification, es August 1947 India became independent, On vember 1949, they finally adopted the Constitution of 2% oe and signed it on 24 January 1950. On 26 January 1950, the

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