Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years — Social Studies STD 7 — Question

In the modern sense the term Hindustan is used to refer to the whole independent India with its different states. That is to identify with the whole nation and its states. But during the 13th century Minhaj-I-Siraj, Persian Chronicler, used it indicate the areas of Punjab, Haryana and the lands between Ganga and Yamuna. He used it in political sense to locate the areas, which were under the control of the Delhi Sultan. But during the 16th century Babur used it to mean the whole subcontinent.