{"id":58150,"date":"2023-09-07T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/07\/india-or-bharat-g20-invitations-throw-up-question-dating-back-centuries"},"modified":"2023-09-07T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:00:12","slug":"india-or-bharat-g20-invitations-throw-up-question-dating-back-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58150","title":{"rendered":"India or Bharat? G20 invitations throw up question dating back centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some say use of \u2018Bharat\u2019 is move to finally throw off colonial chains, others call it disastrous Narendra Modi vanity project<\/p>\n<p>India or Bharat? As the history books show, this is a question that goes back centuries.<\/p>\n<p>As India prepares to host the G20 summit this weekend, state-issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/bharat-g20-invitation-fuels-rumours-india-may-change-name\">invitations sent to world leaders using the word \u201cBharat\u201d<\/a> have ignited rumours that Narendra Modi\u2019s nationalist government might plan to phase out the English name.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/07\/india-or-bharat-g20-invitations-throw-up-question-dating-back-centuries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say use of \u2018Bharat\u2019 is move to finally throw off colonial chains, others call it disastrous Narendra Modi vanity projectIndia or Bharat? As the history books show, this is a question that goes back centuries.As India prepares to host the G20 summi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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-58150","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\/58150","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58151,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58150\/revisions\/58151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}