Reminds me of neopaganism in the West, where some people in the movement will claim there's an unbroken tradition. Do you think this is fed by a preoccupation/

Reminds me of neopaganism in the West, where some people in the movement will claim there's an unbroken tradition. Do you think this is fed by a preoccupation/pride in the culture with their practices and beliefs being incredibly ancient? I think it's pretty well-known that that's a thing in India, but I don't know to what extent it also exists in Sri Lanka.