sorry fo the typo. The reason we are talking about India now is because according to China, India is occupying Chinese land. We were talking about how India as a nation was formed by the British. The key word here is nation as Hindu culture of south asia had been around for a long time but a nation state of India was created by the British Raj.
sorry buddy the princely states u are talking abt came in to existence only after the British came coz the Indian empires started to collapse.
Can u imagine Indians fighting with swords against guns ? anyways that's not the point
1.Epic India is the depiction of Greater India in the Sanskrit epics, viz. the Mahabharata and the Ramayana as well as Puranic literature (the Itihasa). 1500 BC–AD 1200.
The whole subcontinent was conquered by the Maurya Empire during the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.
Much of India was once again united in the 4th century CE, and remained so for two centuries thereafter, under the Gupta Empire. This period, of Hindu religious and intellectual resurgence, is known among its admirers as the "Golden Age of India."
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10th and 15th centuries CE from Central Asia, leading to the formation of Muslim empires in the Indian subcontinent such as the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire.
kingdoms such as the Vijayanagara Empire, the Maratha Empire and the Ahom Kingdom, flourished contemporaneously in Southern, Western and North-Eastern India respectively.
The Mughal Empire suffered a gradual decline in the early eighteenth century, which provided opportunities for the Afghans, Balochis and Sikhs to exercise control over large areas in the northwest of the subcontinent until the British East India Company gained ascendancy over South Asia.
Beginning in the mid-18th century and over the next century, India was gradually annexed by the British East India Company.
that was the gist of it during all this period India was largely united
and the princely states came after the British thanks to there divide and rule policy
India then was known as
Bharata
Bharata (emperor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
or
Hindustan (Hindi:हिन्दुस्तान Hindustān [ɦɪndʊˈstaːn]), meaning either "land of Hindus" or "land of the Hindu River", is one of the names of India
then we have what u are talking about
The British Raj (rāj (राज, راج
, lit. "reign" in Hindustani[1]) is the name given to the period of British colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947