Megasthenes
Megasthenes described about India in his book Indica. He mentioned the following things:
- India is a quadrilateral-shaped country, bounded by the ocean on the southern and the eastern side.
- India has many large and navigable rivers, which arise in the mountains on its northern border.
- Gold, silver, copper and iron are abundant on Indian soil. Besides tin and other metals are used for making a number of tools, weapons, ornaments, and other articles.
- India has very fertile plains, and irrigation is practiced widely. The main crops include rice, millet, a crop called bosporum, other cereals, pulses and other food plants. There are two crop cycles per year, since rain falls in both summer and winter. During winter, wheat is sown.
- A law, prescribed by ancient Indian philosophers, bans slavery. The law treats everyone equally, but allows the property to be unevenly distributed.
- The population of India is divided into 7 hereditary castes: Philosophers, farmers, herders, artisans, Overseers,Councillors and Assessors and military.
Different author came at different times . You can't expect golden age of Gupta's to be followed by diamond age that too in the era of Turbulence in the Western territories of indus .
We called ourselves Arya , Greeks called us indoi and British used it to call us and Pakistanis , Indian .
Irony is India is older than Punjab , Sindh , Kashmir , Gujarat , Maharashtra , Tamil Nadu , Kerala , Kalinga , Bengal .
But Punjab and Sindh are older than Pakistan
And lol someone told me Pakistan was created by british as a buffer state so that communism doesn't spread to India and it becomes a threat to Europe .
After all European capitalists hated socialist and fought WW2 because fascist and Nazis who they supported in their plan to invade USSR failed .