You still hear some people say India was never one historically and can never be one.When did this sense of Indianness develop?What makes this kind of pan-Indianness possible?Historically again, how did this mass of land appear to others?And now?Just that?Is the mystical India gone?Do you see some things as typically Indian?What do you like about Indians?Is there a flip side to this tolerance?What else bothers you about us?(British in nationality and Scottish in residence, John Keay's six books on India include India: A History, Into India and India Discovered)