He doesn’t know the concept of India, by that logic His own country is made up of 4 countries and is eyeing on a “fifth one”.
Lot of earlier debate involves resolution and conflation on what a nation is compared to country (and not coming to any conclusion on it with folks that made up their minds long time ago).
To me there is a clear distinction between nation (long term and not needing political bounding) and country (present context + politically bounded). A country is often called nation-
state to make this distinction clearer.
Historical revisionism + extreme neo-nationalism (i.e unsound/illogical/non-chronological... back to front variant of elder nationalism in the drive for political expedience or justification) inevitably involves some (partial or extreme) conflation of these.
We take stock of simple matters like the Mahabharat mentioning kingdoms like Gandhara (given the major role one character originating from there plays in the epic) alongside kingdoms of Kuru dynasty and then further east (Pancala, Kosala, Magadh, Anga) etc....and how these carried on in time and space (whatever political unities or disunities inherited the national realm) by the hearts, minds, language and cultural expression of its people to persist to their clear equivalencies today.
It is well known which "latest possible" time this epic is dated to, what language it is written in (and which country holds that as an official language today) and what all named foreign civilisations (from that time and that continue today with no need for new names) referred to this nation as.
When you don't have that for whatever reason (inside the head and heart where the nation ultimately bridges in present from past to future) you inevitably need to make new names and start the revisionism in the predictable sad exercise of exclusivity and supremacy.
The state of countries inner realised confidence on these matters has expressed itself already, continues to express itself and will continue to express on realised numbers of note (w.r.t civilisation, knowledge and development) that will just continue to diverge.
This is because of the psychological investment involved by elitists and their blind followers in untruth (and this only grows downstream). It takes far far more energy because it is untruth....and that energy is simply not expended on (far more important) areas that come naturally to countries that are not vice-locked in this self-doubt and needing to invest grievous mental energy/faculty there.
Mark my words on this one, Persia and India will
continue to produce fine grandmasters in both quantity and quality in the civilisation intersection that was "Shatranj" this century.
The void (of the matter I speak of) between them will
continue to produce absolute zilch on that predictably as well.
It is a matter of humour whenever our best meets one of their Persian best. Why not even one from some entity in between us?
i.e 1/6th representation of ours....or 3 times Persia's...to fulfill basic asserted realisation commensurate to population?
So you see a void+new+"pure" name entity will simply mimic anthems on this "Persian" language while speaking essentially the languages of the elder nation entity.....confused what it even is but asserting it isn't....for no old book carries such a name in first place.
The particular irony here also being "Shatranj" (the persian word) comes from.....Sanskrit.
BTW It reflects just one area of intellectual endeavour. Open up same thing on missiles, space, medicine.....those that confidently carry civilisational weight simply ARE in the numbers (coming from, and going to)... and those don't simply blab about it endlessly and end up where they are to show for it. Then predictably whine about whatever conspiracy and excuse....and circle back to the supremacy/exceptionalism/revisionism in clownish fashion to strawman. Its never ending cycle, it is best for us to pay as little to no attention to it.
We have far greater ambition and the journey to renaissance is just starting (stuff like getting our TFR to 2.1, rather than have it like the middle of subsaharan africa to match the typical savings rate there too). There is much work to do and it will only be encumbered by focusing way too much on lost causes and deadweight....former brothers though they may be.