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    Posted: 09-Mar-2007 at 15:30
Why wouldn't the Tamils know about what they considered Bharata? This thread is about the self concept of India, and when Indians realized themselves as that. His quoting of Tamil text shows that even the southern most part of India recognized the land up to the Himalayas as part of India.

As for your question as to why would Tamils know about Kashmir, if they thought Kashmir was part of their greater lands, lands that contained people like them and belonged to the larger region of Bharata of which they were a part of, they would definitely know about it.
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Dear Kashmiri,
 
How did you think Greeks knew about India (Indica)? Or how do you think Chinese scholars knew about India (Heuang Tsuang)? When people from far can know about a country, how come people from the same part of the sub continent know about it well?
 
Culturally entire subcontinent (including today's Pakistan) was very very inter mingled from even the time of Indus Valley or a period immediately after that.  Vedic period gives reminences of every part of this country. There are descriptions of the entire country including south india in Ramayana and Mahabharatha (including Chera, Chola, Pandya and Sinhala Kingdoms).
 
Now when we are talking about Sangan literature, we are talking about a source which is as older, if not older than, the vedic/puranic scriptures.
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The boundary Himalayas cover Kashmir also.
 
'Kashmiri" however does not believe in Kalhana (say thousands years back) , how, then, is he going to believe in Tamuil poets (lived 2500 to 3000 YBP)?
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