From NC :

Here it should be recalled that, it turns out, INDIA is an old RUSSIAN word, see the book “Empire”. It comes from the INDE dialect already forgotten today, that is – “in another place”, “on the other hand”, “here and there”, “somewhere” [786], p.235. Therefore, INDIA is just a FAR COUNTRY, ABROAD. Then, the Russian word INDE passed into the LATIN LANGUAGE created in the XV-XVI centuries, without even changing its form. Today you will see it in the Latin dictionary: “INDE – from there, from that place” [237], p.513.

INDIA Western Europeans in their late “learned language”, Latin, simply called FAR COUNTRIES. And so the word INDIA appeared. Therefore, when a medieval Western author writes “about India,” one should not think that he necessarily means modern India or the territories of America. INDIA could be called and really called, in particular, the medieval Russia-Horde – a distant country.

Once again, we will say that a certain contribution to the descriptions of the atrocities of the conquistadors was made by the later events of the XVII-XVIII centuries, when Western European reformers invaded America, who began to smash the Horde-Ottoman civilizations Maya, Aztecs, Incas and others that appeared here since the XIV century . Thus, the “cruelty of the conquest” consists of two layers. The first is the recollections of the Ottoman-Ataman conquest of the XV-XVI centuries. The second layer is the war of the Reformation era, which finally reached America in the 17th-18th centuries.