<P> The last Gorkhali King Prithvi Narayan Shah self proclaimed the newly unified Kingdom of Nepal as Asal Hindustan (Real Hindustan) due to North India being ruled by the Islamic Mughal rulers . The self proclamation was done to enforce Hindu social code Dharmashastra over his reign and refer his country inhabitable for Hindus . He also referred Northern India as Mughlan (Country of Mughals) and called the region infiltrated by Muslim foreigners . </P> <P> These dual meanings persisted with the arrival of Europeans . Rennel produced an atlas titled the Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan or the Mogul Empire in 1792, which was in fact a map of the Indian subcontinent . Rennel thus conflated the three notions,' India',' Hindustan' and the Mughal Empire . J. Bernoulli, to whom Hindustan meant the Mughal Empire, called his French translation Lar Carte generale de l'Inde (General Map of India). This' Hindustan' of the British was divided into British - ruled territories (sometimes referred to as' India') and the territories ruled by native rulers . The British officials and writers, however, thought that the Indians used' Hindustan' to refer to only North India . An Anglo - Indian Dictionary published in 1886 states that, while Hindustan means India, in the "nativa parlance" it had come to represent the region north of Narmada River excluding Bihar and Bengal . </P> <P> During the independence movement, the Indians referred to their land by all three names:' India',' Hindustan' and' Bharat' . Mohammad Iqbal's poem </P> <P> Sare jahāṃ se acchā Hindustāṃ hamārā (the best of all lands is our Hindustan) </P>

Who gave the name hindustan to our country