{"id":58111,"date":"2023-09-05T23:11:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/bharat-g20-invitation-fuels-rumours-india-may-change-name"},"modified":"2023-09-05T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:11:56","slug":"bharat-g20-invitation-fuels-rumours-india-may-change-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58111","title":{"rendered":"Bharat G20 invitation fuels rumours India may change name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World leaders attending summit in New Delhi at weekend asked to dinner with \u2018president of Bharat\u2019<\/p>\n<p>India was buzzing with speculation over rumoured plans to scrap official use of the country\u2019s English name, after a state-issued invitation to the G20 summit referred to it as Bharat.<\/p>\n<p>The government of the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a>, has been working to remove lingering symbols of British rule from India\u2019s urban landscape, political institutions and history books, but this could be the biggest move yet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/bharat-g20-invitation-fuels-rumours-india-may-change-name\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World leaders attending summit in New Delhi at weekend asked to dinner with \u2018president of Bharat\u2019India was buzzing with speculation over rumoured plans to scrap official use of the country\u2019s English name, after a state-issued invitation to the G20 summ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[749,62,433,61,42],"tags":[497],"class_list":["post-58111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonialism","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","tag-g20"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58112,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58111\/revisions\/58112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}