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He contested the popular narrative that the subcontinent was merely a disparate mass of warring kingdoms and nationalities and that it was the British who had welded them together to give us a sense of nationhood. Quoting from one of the eighteen Mahapuranas—a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism—the Vishnu Purana, he states: ‘We have met with no better attempt to define our position as a people than the terse little couplet in the Vishnu Purana, “The land which is to the north of the sea and to the south of the Himalaya mountains is named ‘Bharata’, inhabited by the descendants of
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