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Excerpt from Universal History, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 11 of 25: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801; Vol. II. Of the Modern Part Ndia takes its name, according to some authors, from the river Indus; according to others it is derived from that of the inhabitants, who call themselves Indows, or Hindoos. Hence it is named by the Turks and Persians, Hindos tan, meaning the country of the Hindoos (the word stan signifying country or region), of which Hindostan, a name familiar among Euro peans, is a corruption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.