On 7/13/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 13 Jul 2007 8:55 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
> Which outsiders? Isn't that begging the question? It assumes an
> already agreed upon "outside" and "inside" does it not?
Yes.
In fact there are accounts of people wanting to trade with India (Europe,
Africa) and of people who visited India (Chinese) as well as those who
wanted to invade (Greek)
It would seem to be that the need to have any exchange with India would not
arise if the said people felt that they were "within" India. Hence there must
have been someone who felt he was "outside" india.
But the various kingdoms traded with and invaded each other as well,
so was there actually any "inside" there?
-- Charles
