Talk:List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies

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Can someone add a section for the Union Territories ? I am invariant under co-ordinate transformations (talk) 02:46, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aryavrata and Mahakosala? Need, citations, please. This sounds completely made up[edit]

I have removed these statements:

At the time of the setting up of the state, Nehru commented that no state in India had a name directly associated with India. Therefore, the CMs for UP or Uttar Pradesh (North India) and Central Province rejected the proposed name (Mahakosala) and selected the word Madhya or "Central India" for the area.

In Sanskrit, Uttar means "north", pradesh means "province" or "land". The name of the state was United Provinces (U.P.) and when Nehru suggested that there should be states with India in name, the name Aryavrata proposed by Dr Sampurnanand was rejected and North India or Uttar Pradesh selected. That way the old initials UP were retained. The fecundity and food production of state (more than 20% of India) has suggested a local name Urvura Pradesh (Fertile State).

So far as I no there is no evidence that Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh were chosen for any reason other than their association with the previous names "Central Provinces" and "United Provinces." In the first case, it was a simple translation and in the second, a convenient way to preserve the initials. I have never heard of this "Mahakosala" and "Aryavrata" story and that Nehru influenced a change based on a wish to have states named after India (in any case, they still don't have "India" or "Bharat" in their names!). This story sounds like a complete myth. I am willing to be proved wrong, but this requires some serious evidence. Acsenray (talk) 21:00, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uttar Pradesh[edit]

The meaning of "Pradesh" does not mean "Province". It means "pra / pre (before) country" (ancient land). The meaning of Deza in sanskrit, or Desh in Hittite(the transliteration of Kadesh does not derive from Hebrew, but from ancient Hat (Kad) or "Hittite"(Kitite); Kadesh; kadeza; hatusha; Katusha; "land of Kat" (Land of Nesha / Hittites)... or Dežela in Slovene ("pra dežela") for example... It means that the name for this land (country) was given by people who spoke Sanskrit once upon a time...Aryans or whatever were they called before the "Dravidians" took over these territories...

West Bengal?[edit]

This state seems to have been left off the list. Is the etymology of Bengal not known with any certainty ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wrichik (talk • contribs) 16:03, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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