<story><title>Jaipur’s Last Stand</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/jaipurs-last-stand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway636536</author><text>&amp;gt; lot of Southern states do not feel that &amp;quot;we belong to India&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Speak for yourself&amp;#x2F;Tamil Nadu. I&amp;#x27;m from Karnataka (a southern state) and majority of kannadigas love India and are patriotic.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; worship &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s language is Hindi&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s religion is the Aryan worshipping flavour of Hinduism&amp;quot; and other nonsense&lt;p&gt;Why do you believe that north indian language and religion are nonsense? I&amp;#x27;ve lived in New Delhi for more than half of my childhood and I don&amp;#x27;t think North Indians are backward relative to South Indians. Although they are relatively poor.</text></item><item><author>thedravidian</author><text>&amp;gt; I would say only the millennial generation onward do Indian citizens feel they belong to India&lt;p&gt;Most of the people in my state, and a lot of Southern states do not feel that &amp;quot;we belong to India&amp;quot;. India seems to expect us to fall to the ground and worship &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s language is Hindi&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s religion is the Aryan worshipping flavour of Hinduism&amp;quot; and other nonsense,  and we decline. We don&amp;#x27;t belong to anyone other than ourselves. Thank you.</text></item><item><author>vishnugupta</author><text>Fascinating story. This brings fourth how complex a country India is.&lt;p&gt;Before (and even during) the British rule India was a ruled tens of of such princely states each in turn had hundreds of low level feudal lords. While British did unify India in terms of governing it, the people always recognised themselves with the king&amp;#x27;s region. E.g., Mysore region, Hyderabad kingdom etc.,&lt;p&gt;India truly became a single political entity only after those hundreds or so kings were forced to abdicate their rule. I would say only the millennial generation onward do Indian citizens &lt;i&gt;feel&lt;/i&gt; they belong to India and not to some princely state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thedravidian</author><text>&amp;gt; Speak for yourself&amp;#x2F;Tamil Nadu.&lt;p&gt;It is informative that you assume I am from Tamil Nadu. It tells us a lot about the underlying assumptions within your &amp;quot;views&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Why do you believe that north indian language and religion are nonsense?&lt;p&gt;No one said that except for you. I&amp;#x27;ll try to simplify what I said since you had difficulty comprehending what I wrote. What I said was that I am opposed to those who worship &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s language is Hindi&amp;quot;. Further, I am opposed to those &amp;quot;who worship Aryans&amp;quot;. Surely I don&amp;#x27;t have to explain why &amp;quot;wheatish&amp;quot; supremacy and other similar nonsense is a bad thing?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t think North Indians are backward relative to South Indians. Although they are relatively poor.&lt;p&gt;Oh ho ho. Again, not something I said. You seem to have a great deal of imagination and are jousting against your imagined provocations instead of what I communicated.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jaipur’s Last Stand</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/jaipurs-last-stand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway636536</author><text>&amp;gt; lot of Southern states do not feel that &amp;quot;we belong to India&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Speak for yourself&amp;#x2F;Tamil Nadu. I&amp;#x27;m from Karnataka (a southern state) and majority of kannadigas love India and are patriotic.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; worship &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s language is Hindi&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s religion is the Aryan worshipping flavour of Hinduism&amp;quot; and other nonsense&lt;p&gt;Why do you believe that north indian language and religion are nonsense? I&amp;#x27;ve lived in New Delhi for more than half of my childhood and I don&amp;#x27;t think North Indians are backward relative to South Indians. Although they are relatively poor.</text></item><item><author>thedravidian</author><text>&amp;gt; I would say only the millennial generation onward do Indian citizens feel they belong to India&lt;p&gt;Most of the people in my state, and a lot of Southern states do not feel that &amp;quot;we belong to India&amp;quot;. India seems to expect us to fall to the ground and worship &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s language is Hindi&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s religion is the Aryan worshipping flavour of Hinduism&amp;quot; and other nonsense,  and we decline. We don&amp;#x27;t belong to anyone other than ourselves. Thank you.</text></item><item><author>vishnugupta</author><text>Fascinating story. This brings fourth how complex a country India is.&lt;p&gt;Before (and even during) the British rule India was a ruled tens of of such princely states each in turn had hundreds of low level feudal lords. While British did unify India in terms of governing it, the people always recognised themselves with the king&amp;#x27;s region. E.g., Mysore region, Hyderabad kingdom etc.,&lt;p&gt;India truly became a single political entity only after those hundreds or so kings were forced to abdicate their rule. I would say only the millennial generation onward do Indian citizens &lt;i&gt;feel&lt;/i&gt; they belong to India and not to some princely state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymous_i</author><text>&amp;gt;  worship &amp;quot;India&amp;#x27;s language is Hindi&amp;quot;,&lt;p&gt;I think , what he is trying to say is,  ascribing a single language to a diversified nation like India is not a good idea.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Why do you believe that north indian language and religion are nonsense?&lt;p&gt;Free speech.LoL.I am not saying OP is right or is following HN etiquette, but that it is OP&amp;#x27;s opinion(not fact, not truth).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t think North Indians are backward relative to South Indians. Although they are relatively poor.&lt;p&gt;Bihar is the most uneducated state in the country. Kolkata is a terrible to place to conduct business of any kind. Although , this is not representative of the North.&lt;p&gt;But what is North anyway ?
Should we consider anything above Madhya Pradesh North ?
Does Gujarat count as North ?
Does Mizoram count as North ?</text></comment>