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   This is another one of those white westeners telling indians and hindus how   
   to be real indians and hindus.   
      
   India *did not* exist before the brits took pen to paper and created it,   
   fulll stop.   
      
   Before the brits created over the times of the colony an adminstrative wide   
   spread structure in s. asia there was *never* a time when anything similar   
   existed, full stop.   
      
   What was to become pakistan and india and bangladesh was the very largest   
   area under control anytime in history, full stop.   
      
   The history of s. asia was one of the rise and fall of local petty kingdoms   
   who by blood on their swords formed a regional empire only.  Nothing like   
   even the area of india today existed, full stop.   
      
   Likewise, there was *never* a time when there was a primary culture that   
   existed in s. asia.  In religions there was the rise and fall of influence   
   all on a regional basis never encompassing all of s. asia, full stop.   
      
     It was always like it is today a patchwork of hundreds of cultures with   
   their hundrreds of languages and hundreds of religions with a full spectrum   
   of regional caltural practices and variations, full stop.   
      
   So when this white westener comes to tell you how to be a real indian and   
   real hindu, ignore him because he has a false agenda to impose.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)