Joseph Maprayil's knowledge about Indian History seems to be astounding. The summation in his last paragraph says it all. 'Thank the brits that India is a country'. My dear Joseph, before asking the guy who posted the message,about his ancestors, please let me from where did your ancestors come from? where were you educated? The word India was a gift of the brits and the europeans who could never pronounce the names in the local lingos. Agreed there were many kingdoms. But people from the south went to Kashi and people came down south to Rameshwaram even 500 years back when the foriegners were not around (There are records of this) . The kingdoms of those days did not have passports and visas you know. Just surf the net to see all the ancient texts, travalouges, in their original form and in English, Translated specially for learned people like you. The maps of the old tell you what was Bharata khanda. Have you heard of Ashoka? The complexities that India is because it encourages thinking and thinking differently. It accepts you, me and the Indian who ever it is.
