It's been called India since the time of the ancient Greeks. B
> On 5 Jul 2015, at 16:51, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > One small point, I don't think it was the British who named the whole place > India, it was the Portuguese Spanish or Italians, (I'm a bit hazy on that, I > could look it up I suppose), some early explorer wanted to know what the land > was called and some local gave the name for local area that sounded to the > foreigner something like "India", which most Europeans picked up for the > entire sub continent. [...] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
