India was and is a great civilisation and India does have a glorious past. But that glorious past was in the time of the Indus Valley civilisation and not in the Vedic Period, as claimed by this Illuminati Member - Gautier.
Indians have been slaves for the past 3,500 years. It is really only the last 61 years of atleast nominal democracy and 19 years of liberalisation which has just began the process of liberation of the Native Indians, who have, of late began to believe that we too are human beings. For the past 3500 years, most Native Indians considered self as sub human and only conquering race, be that Aryan, Tukish, Mongol,French, British or Portugese race to be superior.