Banyan: Is India a country or a continent?

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In its integration, India is somewhere between the United States and the European Union




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IN A speech to London’s Constitutional Club in 1931, Winston Churchill poured scorn on the idea of India. “India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator,” he spat, a slur that invites such uniform disagreement from Indians as to disprove itself. Less well known, but more worthy of debate, is the previous line of Churchill’s speech: “India is no more a political personality than Europe,” he contended.
The personalities of both India and Europe have changed a great deal since 1931. But in explaining India to ...