Gautam
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Right. Not in a modern nation state.F*ck off.
Nepal was never a part of India, that is a fact. It was not even a part of British India.
And by the same logic there was no country of India back then either.
The Buddha was born in a small kingdom called Kapilavastu, where his father was the king, which was situated on both sides of today's Indian Nepalese border. His actual birthplace, Lumbini, is today in Nepal. Many people, thus, say he was born in Nepal, even if that wasn't the name of the country at the time.
Many people, on the other hand, say he was born in India, because Kapilavastu was one of many small independent kingdoms and republics together making up the Indian subcontinent.
The people of Kapilavastu were part of the Indian cultural sphere, since they were talking Indian languages (Magadhi for everyday use and Vedic Sanskrit for religious use), since they were dominated by Vedic beliefs (the forerunner to modern Hinduism) and so on.