In Gandhi's 1909 Hind Swaraj, is Hind a noun or an adjective (or both) and why 'foreign' Hind rather than Bharat(iya)?

That is, is the title to be read as 'Self-rule for India'(Hind, a foreign Persian and Arab name for the country beyond the Indus, a colonial state ruled from outside, though Gandhi rejected both...

07 April 2015 2,061 8 View