how hind of Arabic became ind of English arab world was familiar with india as al hind maybe due to trade relations which kept the two parts of the world together cultural exchange of mythology,folklore was commonplace hind got its name from sind or sindhu i.e. sindhu or the river sindhu or what was known to the western world through Greek navigators who accompanied Alexander during his Indian campaign testified only by Greek and Turkish sources there is no mention in contemporary literature especially Sanskrit sindhu was named or identified as indus likewise in old cartographs Indian ocean is Mare Indicum now coming to our point how al hind became ind h became silent as is common in English usage eg. hour is pronounced as our,heir is eir or like air,heirarchy is iarchy thus the al hind became ind of the english

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