--- On Tue, 8/16/11, Antonio Menezes <ac.mene...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I could be wrong and stand to be corrected, the Indian > nation was the > creation of the British empire builders. For > Shivaji and his descendents it was Maratha empire and for > the Chitpawan > brahmins who followed it was Peshwe > empire but never an Indian empire and so it could be said > of all other > people of India who have lived in various > parts of it. >
It would be interesting to know what the subjects of Ashokavardhana Maurya's Indian empire in 250 B.C.E. called themselves. Here is the map of his empire: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/early/ashoka/ashoka.html As far as the map of British Indian empire is concerned, here it is in 1857 C.E.: http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/india/indiamap1857.htm Please note that Ceylon and parts of Burma were part of it, along with Bangla Desh and parts of Pakistan. The fact of the matter of course is that, regardless of the changing political boundaries, all the people of the Indian subcontinent have descended from the same four tribes that settled on that land at different times from ~60,000 to ~3200 years ago. Cheers, Santosh
