Well quite funny argument.
There was never a concept of the India then, But it was called or termed as 'Akand Bharath'. If not just try to inject something into our brain if there any such things exists.
From the Chandragupta maruya period people living south asia are 'now' called as Indians. Even pakistanis are with the indian ethos.
Do you think the indian muslims are jumped directly from arab or turks? They are embrassed islam for many other reasons. Tamils (I am) never was out of mainstream in the akand Bharath, They people went raised when moghuls cracked down the north indian rulers and many of them got disintegrated over fear of defeat. Marathas, fought against the Moghuls, again. Come on buddy, have some water You people know only the twisted history presented by the max-muller and your history are written by your own people and us or any westerners.
Nimo yet again dont $hit around here and this topic is now going no where.
Thanks, Agantrope, that is very enlightening, i expect more such informative posts.
I am certainly not as knowledgable as you are when it comes to the histroy of India.
But there is a fact i do know, which is, India as well as China has a lot of different ethnic groups living in the same country.
I am not sure how many differnt ethnic groups are there in India, which one is the majority, which ones are the minorities. But i am sure all of them call themselves Indian now in spite of all the unhappy history may have happened among them.
And i am sure no one here will agree that majority in India are called Indian, while the minorities are not. Well, maybe Ray is an exception.
Then I am just asking for same courtesy when we are talking about Chinese. People who are living in China are Chinese, no matter what ethnic groups he/she comes from.