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Tronic i must disagree, there was no such thing as Indianness. At best we could say that the rulers and upper elites agreed on all being inhabitants of Hindustan.
But core identity was based then as it is now on a mix of Religion, caste and regional ethnic identity. Most of us hated each others guts much much more than we ever hated the English. The grievances were deeper and more long standing than our dislike of Imperial Britain.
Nationalism is a thin coat that struggles even now to bind our peoples together.
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