India has been often pontified in public discourse with the diatribe of a developing nation, poverty-stricken economy, creed based on superstition, with its people stuck in a ruckus of socio-economic issues. Have these opinions (or “realities”) remained consistent throughout the course of history? Or are there those who have believed that India’s past was the touchstone of a nation-state?
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