Talk:Indians (Age of Empires II)/@comment-31256631-20170216152741/@comment-31256631-20170217182044

It doesn't matter if the term exists or not, what matters is if there is any actual cultural, religious, or nationalistic unity. India did not back then. There are many concepts that are philosophically defined but not adhered to. Besides, the story of Bharata is comparable to the Sage Emperors of Xia China. Is it historical? Questionable and blurred between real and legend. And just like Xia China did not establish a Chinese entity -- it took some well-documented, history-proven cultural genocide by the Qin to do that -- I don't see any evidence of Emperor Bharata actually uniting (not just unifying) India.

Western nationalism came late anyway. The Persians and Chinese had national unity -- both thanks to excellent administrative bureaucracy -- long before western peasants even had the concept of 'nation-state'. Do not presume I'm a westerner just because I speak English =P