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The word Hindu comes from an Old Persian term for the region east of which river?
AGanga
BYamuna
CNarmada
DSindhu
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Sindhu
Old Persian usage named the land east of the Sindhu, or Indus, which the Arabs later called al-Hind.
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