When Did India Become Modern

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This above and other parts of the post are not correct.  Did you read Hunter?

-Digvijay
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As I said there was no central Hindu Monarchy which could plan the entire defence of Indian land mass. Hunter says the same thing and says each region kept fighting to defeat the Muslim rule. Only after the european modernisation that the Indian elite and masses were able to WAKEUP to create one central political front.

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Acharya,
Above clearly shows there was coherence amongst our kings and they had a common grudge against the muslims. It is not merely a stmnt as this is how exactly it happened. A foreign invader was considered some one to be defeated. Everyone is fighting the same muslims to defeat them and they did it quite well on account of which we still have majority Hindu India. So how is a central political front lacking here?

-Digvijay