The modern Republic of India. Sindhu is a river in Sanskrit, in Persian it becomes Hindu. Sthana in Sanskrit is place.^[2][3]

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South Asia

Hindustani language

Hindustani music

Names of India

For a list of Indian companies starting with Hindustan, see List of Indian companies.

"Hindustan" (1918), a popular published song written and composed by Oliver G. Wallace and Harold Weeks.

Indian car manufactorer Hindustan Motors.

The term Hindustan (Hindi: हिन्दुस्तान [Hindustān], Urdu: ہندوستان [Hindustān], [ɦɪn̪d̪ʊst̪aːn]) is derived from the (Persian) word Hindu (which is itself derived from Sindhu, Sanskrit for the Indus River)^[1] + -stān, often formerly rendered Hindoostan and the adjective Hindustani may relate to various aspects of three geographical areas (see Names of India):

Historically, the Indian subcontinent during the medieval times. The adjective Hindustani is a term applied to the syncretic Hindu culture of South Asia. Hindustani is sometimes also used as an ethnic term applied to South Asia. (e.g., A West Indian man with roots in South Asia might describe his ethnicity by saying he is Hindustani. See also, Hindoestanen)

A region in northern India, east and south of Yamuna river, between the Vindhya mountains and the Himalayas, where Hindi/Hindustani language is spoken.

HMS Hindustan, one of the eight ships of the King Edward VII class battleships.

Hindustan Times, a major Northern Indian English language daily newspaper.

Hindustan Airport, the major airport of Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Hindustani (1996), also called Indian or Bharateeyudu, a film dubbed in Hindi from the Tamil original Indian film, directed by S. Shankar and starring Kamal Haasan.

Hindustan, a small town in Indiana, just south of Martinsville, Indiana.