Before the term india was coined ..... there was this group of people living in the land of 5 rivers.
They had one flamboyant idea to find the one thing that relates the people who live between the himalayas and the land that goes into the sea.
Initially they found it difficult to strike a note with indigeneous people. The Effort they gave was more on the side of force that pleasant discussion.
They were unable to come to a standpoint from where they can decide a common path with the aborigines.
Then came a devine intervention.
They heard the story of an old king who ruled the land and was a well known figure.
They said he was the one who laid the laws of the land.
So the group of people started the search for the tru existance of the Old King.
According to the folk tales, the king came on a Ship to this Country since his world was destroyed by giant waves.
His name was Manu.
According to the teachings of Manu the people of this landed started mended their lives, his ways became their ways and when he passed away , his son was the sole ruler of the Land from Himalayas to the Tip where the Peninsula Ended. His name was Bharat.According to legends he ruled the country for years and those years were the most prosperous time for the Land.
From that point on the group of people thought that they will honour the great king Bharat who unified the Land and made it into one.
From that day on...... India the land beyond the mighty Indus got its first name, the idea of it as one country came.
It s been ages after that ..... in the year of 1857 when the folks from East India Company gave the reigns of their empire to the Queen of England India was made into a country under one power.
A unification that caused such a turmoil that the Queen and his pompous handymen had to leave the place for good although they did plunder the country of its riches and led to the formation of the county today we live in.
Although the Idea came centuries ago, It camr to execution about 3000 years later.
As we see todays leaders again sticking their thumbs in breaking into as many micro regions possible,new uprisings of squashed minorities in extreme parts of the country, i just wander how those groups of people will feel now who saw this land as together milleniums ago.
They had one flamboyant idea to find the one thing that relates the people who live between the himalayas and the land that goes into the sea.
Initially they found it difficult to strike a note with indigeneous people. The Effort they gave was more on the side of force that pleasant discussion.
They were unable to come to a standpoint from where they can decide a common path with the aborigines.
Then came a devine intervention.
They heard the story of an old king who ruled the land and was a well known figure.
They said he was the one who laid the laws of the land.
So the group of people started the search for the tru existance of the Old King.
According to the folk tales, the king came on a Ship to this Country since his world was destroyed by giant waves.
His name was Manu.
According to the teachings of Manu the people of this landed started mended their lives, his ways became their ways and when he passed away , his son was the sole ruler of the Land from Himalayas to the Tip where the Peninsula Ended. His name was Bharat.According to legends he ruled the country for years and those years were the most prosperous time for the Land.
From that point on the group of people thought that they will honour the great king Bharat who unified the Land and made it into one.
From that day on...... India the land beyond the mighty Indus got its first name, the idea of it as one country came.
It s been ages after that ..... in the year of 1857 when the folks from East India Company gave the reigns of their empire to the Queen of England India was made into a country under one power.
A unification that caused such a turmoil that the Queen and his pompous handymen had to leave the place for good although they did plunder the country of its riches and led to the formation of the county today we live in.
Although the Idea came centuries ago, It camr to execution about 3000 years later.
As we see todays leaders again sticking their thumbs in breaking into as many micro regions possible,new uprisings of squashed minorities in extreme parts of the country, i just wander how those groups of people will feel now who saw this land as together milleniums ago.
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