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Where Hindu is a nationality/culture and not a religion. India is a name given by slavers. Bharat is a very very old concept.


That lovely linguistic sleight of hand means that people called a region bharat. By the criteria how come Sri Lanka is not included? Or how do you reconcile the 7 sisters being part of that? For that matter the word Europe exists - are you arguing that states should act like nations a la the EU?


I reconcile that by the fact that the same unifying culture is and has been present for centuries in the whole subcontinent.


How do you reconcile that beef eating is fine in Kerala Hindus and abhorrent/used to target minorities by North Indian Hindus?




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