Kashmir, and Pakistan and Bangladesh, and co...

Still, India as of today remains huge (1.4 billion people) and mostly homogenous and more long lived than most other nations, the claim wasn't that it was a monolithic thing that never had any splits/ethnic issues...

The comparison I explicitly made was to e.g. the Babylonian empire (now totally gone), the Roman empire (now totally gone), the British colonial empire (now almost totally gone), Austro-Hungarian empire (now gone), and so on...

> Still, India as of today remains huge (1.4 billion people) and mostly homogenous

India is ethnically, culturally, geographically, religiously, linguistically one of the most diverse countries in the world.

One of the main reason space launches like this are in English and English is one of official language is because not everyone has a common background

You can argue they regrouped via the European Union, like both Austria, Hungary as well as Italy and France are members of the union - to name a few.

They all even use the same currency too!