These are certainly alternate names for some of the tags in the game but I'm not sure I think you've argued for what makes them better.
In some cases you want to replace state names that are regional but in common use, with capital names (such as air vs agadez) but you don't mention countless of similar states in the game (Carnatic, Khorasan). Here we prefer the wider names as they make it less weird if the capital moves.
In other cases you want to rename a tags so they are not named after regions they are in (Baluchistan, Kham) but you dislike Chagatai and want that renamed after the region Moghulistan.
As for Bahmanis, they follow the same logic as the Mughals and the Ottomans (neither of these have an s because they represent many different states either, like the Bahmanis, they don't). They are also frequently referred to both with -id and -is ending, as are many Muslim dynasties. I am not sure why one would be better than the other.
I do agree about Vijayanagar/a though I doubt it will help with pronunciation.
In a mod you can do as you wish of course. For vanilla though even if we ignore the way and time the name was conceived, the actual original meaning of Pak-istan would fit a South Indian formed tag very poorly.
As for Hindus vs Hindusthan: the etymology is more or less the other way around. Hindus are called so because they inhabited the land of Hindusthan (i.e. Beyond the Indus). It's an exonym that became the accepted term for the entire religion thanks to the British.
Unlike many other terms Hindusthan was also used in titles by actual sultanates that existed in the timeframe. Most famously the Mughals (I can recommend an article by the late M Athar Ali about Akbar thoughts on the name if you're interested) though they themselves identified more often with their dynasty than their lands. Europeans also frequently referred to the Mughals as "emperor of Hindusthan".
Bharat is of course derived directly from old Hindu history, traditions and mythology, and it is also the name the actual independent India chose for themselves when they formed.
You could argue all religions should form one state: India, but then you'd have Muslim and Hindu names entirely mixed and you'd also end up with it all United under another (Greek) exonym, that wasn't even more common at the time.
As this is a fantasy state (India unified prior to colonialism in the early modern era) we cannot really name it after what historians or popular culture calls it, as they don't call it anything.
In some cases you want to replace state names that are regional but in common use, with capital names (such as air vs agadez) but you don't mention countless of similar states in the game (Carnatic, Khorasan). Here we prefer the wider names as they make it less weird if the capital moves.
In other cases you want to rename a tags so they are not named after regions they are in (Baluchistan, Kham) but you dislike Chagatai and want that renamed after the region Moghulistan.
As for Bahmanis, they follow the same logic as the Mughals and the Ottomans (neither of these have an s because they represent many different states either, like the Bahmanis, they don't). They are also frequently referred to both with -id and -is ending, as are many Muslim dynasties. I am not sure why one would be better than the other.
I do agree about Vijayanagar/a though I doubt it will help with pronunciation.
In a mod you can do as you wish of course. For vanilla though even if we ignore the way and time the name was conceived, the actual original meaning of Pak-istan would fit a South Indian formed tag very poorly.
As for Hindus vs Hindusthan: the etymology is more or less the other way around. Hindus are called so because they inhabited the land of Hindusthan (i.e. Beyond the Indus). It's an exonym that became the accepted term for the entire religion thanks to the British.
Unlike many other terms Hindusthan was also used in titles by actual sultanates that existed in the timeframe. Most famously the Mughals (I can recommend an article by the late M Athar Ali about Akbar thoughts on the name if you're interested) though they themselves identified more often with their dynasty than their lands. Europeans also frequently referred to the Mughals as "emperor of Hindusthan".
Bharat is of course derived directly from old Hindu history, traditions and mythology, and it is also the name the actual independent India chose for themselves when they formed.
You could argue all religions should form one state: India, but then you'd have Muslim and Hindu names entirely mixed and you'd also end up with it all United under another (Greek) exonym, that wasn't even more common at the time.
As this is a fantasy state (India unified prior to colonialism in the early modern era) we cannot really name it after what historians or popular culture calls it, as they don't call it anything.
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