It is generally recognised and admitted on all hands that this Indian unity is largely, if not solely, the creation of the British rule… What is generally not known and recognized, however, is that the idea of this fundamental unity is much older than British rule, that it is not recent growth or discovery but has history running back to a remote antiquity. There are many proofs to show that the great founders of Indian religion, culture and civilization were themselves fully conscious of the geographical unity of their vast mother-country.