Pakistanis have pathetic historical knowledge , poor people have to forget heavily tumultuous past , i pity them .
Yep, Pakistani had tumultuous past, and Indian had smooth past, that is, slavery throughout.
Indians have hundred and millions of years history of yugas, Kalpas etc. unfortunately which no body understand.
A Bit of history for you , when
Chandragupta Maurya ruled 80% of the Indian sub cont from his capital
Pataliputra/Patna , Bihar , ancient Greek historian
Megasthenes work was an ambassador of Greece
in his court , he wrote his an account in the book called Indica , so India existed even at the time of Chandragupta Maurya .
Mauryas ruled 80% of sub-continent for few decades, in the long history, so what?
Mongols, Greeks in the time of Alexander etc. ruled vast expanses of Land, over many nations, tribes etc. so were the subjugated nations/peoples were called Mongols or Greeks..?
What at the time different races in east or north or soulth subcontinent called itself?
But you guys were happy or cherished being called Indian , changed everything about yourself from religion, culture to language , even a carved country called pakistan out of it in 1947 .
Don't blame us if we still carry the tag of india proudly for thousands of years .
It is Bakhshali manuscript , not script .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakhshali_manuscript
Since when the inhabitant of Subcontinent called them selves Indians?
Was Shivaji Maratha called himself Indian? and his antagonist Auranzeb called himself Indian?
Akbar called himself Indian? and Maharan called himself Indian.?
etc.
You see, only after subjugation by British: people of Subcontinent started to get know each other as Indian, thus born the Indian Nationalism, which is a gift of British Rule.
British conquered a plethora of different nationalities, ethnicity, tribes, etc and gave it name and shape from 1857 to 1947.
Great....now the discovery that zero is 500 years old tells a lot about the advances made by vedic civilization.
Leave them man...the point is the whole world calls that as Indian civilization.
@ on topic...Bakhshali manuscript calls zero as shunya-bindu.
You must have heard the term 'European Civilization'? whether it mean that Europe is a single nation or culture or what?
As Europe denote a geographical area so does the term India. Got it?
Moreover, Vedic Culture or Civilization (if you must) is only found in books.
While us indigenous people knew geophical region as Bharat Varsha , this geographical region which includes todays Pakistan was always called India and it's inhabitants as one group of people called Indian or similar terms by the Europeans .
While Arabs and Persians knew us as Hindustan and people as one group of people called Hindus/Hindis . Moghul kings called themselves Shehenshah of Hindustan which included all of the sub continent.
Even today Arabs refer to people of this subcontinent as one group of people namely Hindis.
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Bharat Varsha was first used about 1 B.C. in Agni Purana for Land bound by Himalaya in north and Sea in South.
Before, named used was Aryaverta, which referred to North and north-western sub-continent region only.
and Before that name used was Septa Sindhu, land of Seven rivers, which comprised the 5 rivers of Punjab and Sindh and Saraswati (Ghaggar Hakra) river.
No one residing in subcontinent called itself India or Indian in antiquity till subjugated by British.
Indian is not an ethnicity; like Punjabi, Maratha, Bengali, Rajput, etc.
According to you arab called to Hindustani, but tell me, what you people called yourself then?
