India was also created after partition in 1947. This is a real fact.
Just a minor correction. It was Pakistan that was
_created_ through partition. The Republic of India
inherited the British India. That is why Pakistan had to apply afresh for its UN membership while India got the seat that British India held and accordingly continues to be considered as the founder member of UN, even though Republic of India didn't exist when UN was created. Now, go figure.
There is no India of a thousand years ago. India didnt exist before the British rule. I really cant understand these silly arguments where India is as old as the oldest relic found on the subcontinent. You seem to think the Indian subcontinent is your nation.
Forget Indian subcontinent, even the Republic of India is not a nation in classical sense. So no need to paint that herring red. But yes, India has existed even couple of thousand years ago - not as a homogeneous
political entity but as a geographical entity which later assumed this geo-political identity that it is today. That the region east of Indus had a distinctive geographical identity is attested by several foreign scholars who visited this region during those times, as part of any conquest or on purely scholarly pursuit. This geographical identity, 'India', was latter borrowed to create a political identity once the foreign invaders decided to set shop in this region.
Its not rocket science you see. All you have to do is pick up a few books on history and flip through the pages. When I say 'books on history' I mean books of history not some work of fiction masquerading as history
Indians can only claim the history of their people. This does not include the Indus Valley and I think most Indians realise this, hence all the mass migration theories and vague IVC towns in India etc.
If you are saying it, it must be true.
Ancient Pakistan is a geographic region also known as Indus Valley (land of the Indus river). It is not a political concept.
Au contraire, Pakistan is an out and out political concept and the geography that Pakistan occupies has a very distinctive geographical identity and it begins with the letter 'I'. Pakistan
never existed as a concept prior to early part of 20th Century and certainly not physically prior to 14 August, (or is it 15 August?) 1947.
There was no 'ancient' Pakistan. There was only ancient India.