According to Mookerji, such efforts resulted in establishing cultural unity within a ‘federation’ of ‘different creeds, cults and cultures with liberty to each to preserve its own special features and genius and contribute its own quota to enrich the central culture’.14 In that sense, Bharat’s civilisation may be understood as a federal civilisation with multiple sub-identities that are free to retain their identities but have remained culturally and politically bound for millennia.
