https://acoup.blog/2021/07/02/collections-my-country-isnt-a-nation/
This is about the US, but I have been thinking about India along the same lines (mostly inspired by the Hindi imposition debates and the resistance to Hindi in the southern states). Being Maharashtrian has never been a political identity (in spite of the best attempts of the Shiv Sena). Devdas Bhagat