> aided in creating an empire that unified the whole of India. The geographical area under present day India was never under a single kingdom/government/flag

> aided in creating an empire that unified the whole of India. The geographical area under present day India was never under a single kingdom/government/flag until 1950s. During the Maurya Empire, the present day Kerala, Tamil Nadu and parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were not a part of the empire. Even when major parts of India was a British colony, some territories were controlled by the French (Pondichery), Portuguese (Goa) and the Nizams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire#/media/File:Maurya_Empire,_c.250_BCE_2.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire#/media/File:Maur...