Shatrubodh : An insight about the civilizational threats

 Any kind of insurgency always needs an intellectual ground or say intellectual backing. Enemies of Indian state, or the enemies of Indian/Hindu nation, look for an intellectual backing too. They get their intellectual backing by disproving or falsifying the narrative of India as a nation or a Hindu nation at times. Best way to do it is prove that India was systematically invaded by people from times immemorial, including the very Hindus who claim to the ancient custodians of this nation.  Further they try to create a narrative that India was never a nation at all, South India was always different, North India was always different, North East was always different, cleverly bypassing the fact that within today's India's boundaries people used to roam freely, without having a hint of being in some foreign land. Because the entire region was tied together by the civilizational thread, if not a political one. Christian missionaries, are not only responsible for conversion of triba...

Quite often I encounter people who say that India was never a nation.. It's amusing to see their deep love of a divided Bharat. I must reply them, that their knowledge of nationhood is quite narrow. I'm sorry to say, but there can be different basis of nationhood in different regions. In Europe nationhood was derived from ethnicity or linguistic basis, in middle East basis of nationhood was religious (Islamic caliphate) and in East, South Asia onwards, the basis of nationality was civilizational. In Vishnu Purana which is not some recent text Bharat is defined as उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् ।   वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र संततिः ie, “The country (Varsam) that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bharatam; there dwell the descendants of Bharata" people, despite the absence of a political unity in the administration of India, used to roam freely without having a feeling of being in some other foreign land. For a very long time ...