PERSPECTIVE
nation sadhguru
Nations are created on the basis of
race, religion, language or ethnicity. India, however, is a mind-bogglingly
complex combination of all these ingredients and more. Sameness has been the
basis of the making of nations. India stands in total defiance of this formula!
In some
ways, we’re probably the oldest nation on the planet. Although we comprised
over 200 political fragments in the past, we were still seen—from outside and
from within this subcontinent—as an entity with a certain civilisational unity.
And so, this land was called Bharat, or sometimes Hindustan.
The term
‘Hindustan’, it must be remembered, pre-dates religion. It did not refer to one
particular faith. It meant a geographical identity—the land between the
Himalaya and the Indu Sarovar (as the Indian Ocean was known).
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