I am an Indian, do I need to read a foreign paper to know about my own nation? You are confusing two different topics, we are not discussing the concept "Hindu

I am an Indian, do I need to read a foreign paper to know about my own nation? You are confusing two different topics, we are not discussing the concept "Hindu", we are discussing whether there was an entity "India". The paper you linked says nothing about that. I have told you how the concept of India is very old using the citations in your cited paper. The blog post I linked proves my point so I don't know what you are talking about. What do I have to be defensive about? Do you think I have identity crisis because some random person on the internet has some beliefs? lol