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Still though, one unifying factor of India is it's long history of Hinduism, and Hindu resiliance to outside cultures.

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Originally Posted by DontRunMeOver (Post 305599)

Its mainly because 'India' is really a creation of British imperialism. Before colonisation, it was made up of a bunch of kingdoms (not called kingdoms, but that's pretty much what they were) with different cultures and religions and ethnic groupings. The area which India covers wasn't one country until Europeans came and drew those lines on a map. That means that although India is one nation now, the seperate states within that country have cultures which in some ways are much more isolated from one another than in the US for example. They have more history within each state (than the US) and perhaps less shared history between states*

That might need more clarification at some point!

and don't forget pakistan and bangledesh were once part of imperial india, but were broken off for the muslims

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Originally Posted by Mamagarmr (Post 305624)

and don't forget pakistan and bangledesh were once part of imperial india, but were broken off for the muslims

Yep, they split the Punjab right down the middle so lots of the Sikhs got pissed off and all came over to the UK. One of the leaders in Hyderabad (predominantly Muslim city in South India, Andhra Pradesh I think) tried to have his city declared independent from the rest of India in 1947 too! Its in the middle of the country!

What has this to do with meat eating?

dunno... heh... maybe cause muslims eat cow, and hindu's don't