Tag: Persian origins

By Muslim Mirror Desk, Historian Irfan Habib on Sunday responded to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) name changing spree and said that the party should change names of their members first. Referring to the party president Amit Shah's name, Habib pointed out that Shah itself is a Persian name and is not derived from Sanskrit. The 87-year-old Aligarh Muslim University professor emeritus added, "Even the term Gujarat itself is of Persian origin. It was called Gurjaratra earlier. They should also change it." Habib said that if the BJP is changing the names...