
Nirupama Menon Rao on South Asian Identity
Ideas of India
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What's the Difference Between India and South Asia?
India is an odd place. The southern states have more and common, you know, with say Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand,. Then they have with say Afghanistan and Peshawar - but the north has virtually nothing to do with any of this. So I just always feel like whatever we think of as the modern day subcontinent has a civilizational sort of unity. But it's not the only one because there are also these multiple civilizational things that are going on in all directions simultaneously for centuries at a time.
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