NEW DELHI—Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his opening address to the G20 summit Saturday with his country nameplate labelled
The gesture came days after invitations to the summit dinner were sent out in the name of the “President of Bharat”, prompting rumours that official usage of the country’s English name would be scrapped.
Zakia Soman, the co-founder of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, a rights group, said the potential name change reeked of yet more “polarizing politics” by the government. But members of Modi’s Hindu nationalist party have campaigned against using the better-known moniker, which has roots in Western antiquity and was imposed during the British conquest.
Earlier this week, foreign minister S. Jaishankar seemed to support the idea of shedding the name India.
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