Saurabh – I get your point about the underlying jingoism (which may or may not be necessary), but the dates based loophole that you have put forward is superficial. Using your line of thought, we could also say “India” truly didn’t exist till 1975 when Sikkim joined in. In reality the Brits conceived a strategy to usurp “India”, that completed in 1857. But the basic idea of a ~200 year rule was used to spark the freedom movement and subsequent nation building. Same goes for many National histories…