Karnataka Congress Leader Defiant Amid "Word Hindu Has Dirty Meaning" Row

Karnataka Congress MLA Satish Jarkiholi today claimed that many books mention the "Persian" roots of the word 'Hindu', a day after his remark on the origin of the word stoked a massive controversy. "There's nothing wrong in what I said. There are hundreds of records about how this Persian word (Hindu) came. This has been mentioned in Swamy Dayanand Saraswati's book 'Satyarth Prakash', Dr GS Patil's book 'Basava Bharatha' and Bal Gangadhar Tilak's 'Kesari' newspaper as well. These are just 3-4 examples, there are many such articles available on Wikipedia or any website, you should please read it," he said in a video statement.