India DID arose above demographic distinctions to unite peoples of various geographic economic ethnic linguistic and religious backgrounds Im sad I have to continue to point this out If India did not exist my Telugu speaking Mother would never have met my Tamil Father and I would never have been born THIS IS NOT A POV THIS IS FACT   As its related to you point  and filled with sceptical people like you I have get to basics   Hindus home to the thirdlargest population of Muslims in the world  Christians  Sikhs  Buddhists  Jains  Jews Zoroastrians Ahmadimuslims and Bahs not to mention a vast number of tribal communities and other ethnic groups Home to two major linguistic families IndoAryan  of the population and Dravidian spoken by about   official languages  dialectsmothertongues This article will point out  princely states each with their own autonomous government Today this sounds just facinating but back then when the british left it must have been doneright scary NOT POV just plain reasoning  Not every terrorism refer to kashmir We have had and still have the LTTE the Maoist guerrilas called naxalites like Peoples War Group  CPImaoist and then Ranvir Sena The Bodo Liberation front and other groups in the northeast the Khalistan movement and the list goes on We have time and again put down terrorism by force it is simply a necessity A lot of people policemen army  and paramilitary polititian and heads of states have died doing this For th last time NOT A POV  Finnaly I must plead with you look at things with a little less negetivism There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the first para or the statements you pointed out Disagreeing with what you read doesnt make it POV And please sign your name