Hindustan (Hindi:हिन्दुस्तान Hindustān ) "land of Hindus", is one of the names of India popular in the Middle East. Etymology Hindustan is derived from the word Hindu, which is derived from Sindhu, Sanskrit for the Indus River. Sindhu is a river in Sanskrit, in Persian it becomes Hindu. This together with a popular suffix -stān (Sanskrit word 'sthāna' meaning place, later turned to 'stan') gave birth to the word Hi… (More on Hindustan)