Ever since man came out of Africa, India has been occupied. Thousands of Gods have been worshiped and many, even lost and forgotten. The land was united as one under different monarchs - Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka, Vikramaditya, Akbar, Aurangazib and the likes, but remained a bunch of kingdoms through most part of history. The whole identity of India, arises out of the British conquest of the land, who, for the first time in history, managed to bring the entire subcontinent under a single crown. For that, we have to thank the Imperialists.
Then came that part in India's history which i consider the worst - Partition.
August 15th, 1947 is known to us as a day that brought joy and liberty from the clutches of the tyrannic British. It wasn't that for millions who were already migrating across the Radcliffe line to the side they were "supposed" to belong to. There was bloodshed and there were trains filled with bodies, traveling both directions. Even the languages migrated with the people. Delhi Urdu, for example can now be found only in Peshawar and Karachi. The land imploded. The situation best described by this TIME cover.
Leaving all that behind, the land (now three different nations) has moved on.
As Michael Wood put it so beautifully:
"The past is magnificent but we humans can unfortunately live only in the present."
