The land south of Himalayas is called Himavarsha. It was subsequently called Bharata Varsha. In this land termed as Bharat Varsha, the worship of many Gods or Deities is practiced. There were fights about who is supreme, there stories describing supremacy of individual Gods and there are stories synthesizing the existence of multiple deities. There is ancient knowledge called Vedas, which is believed to be the knowledge transferred from Supreme God to Brahma and then onwards transmitted to others. There is elaborate arrangement to make sure that it is not altered. But still many alternations have taken place and they are accommodated as shakhas of Vedas. There are puranas equally old but they are stories of events recited by some individuals about the events in creation of this entire universe and its progress. Naturally, the reason for the existence of the universe and the logic governing its progress are discussed in the events of the puranas (purans). All this religious literature describes places mainly in Himavarsh or Bharatavarsh and only a very limited description is there of other places.
The places in Bharatvarsh from Himalayas to the Sea (Samudra) at its Southern side are described in this literature and there are many sacred places.
1925
Hindu Rashtra Darshan
Veer Savarkar
Prabhat Prakashan - Religion
A Hindu, to sum up the conclusions arrived at, is he who looks upon the land that extends from Sindhu to Sindhu, from the Indus to the seas, as the land of his forefathers, his pitrabhu, who inherited the blood of that race whose first discernible source is traced to the Vedic Saptasindhus, which, on its onward march, assimilated much that was incorporated and ennobling. The Hindus, who inherited and claimed as their own the culture of that race, as expressed chiefly in their common classic language, Sanskrit, and represented by a common history, a common literature, art and architecture, law and jurisprudence, rites and rituals, ceremonies and sacraments, fairs and festivals, and who, above all, address this land, this Sindhustan, as their punyabhu, as the holy land, the land of their saints and seers, of godmen and gurus, the land of piety and pilgrimage. These are the essentials of Hindutva – a common rashtra, a common jaati, and a common sanskriti. All these essentials could best be summed up by stating in brief that they are Hindu to whom Sindhustan is not only a pitrabhu but also a punyabhu.
—Excerpts from this book
Assimilation of Foreigners into Bharatavarsha - Continuous Process.
During the last one thousand years, there bad been many foreign aggressions on our land. The invaders such as the Greeks, Hunas and the Shakas who came previously were either defeated and driven out or, if some of them stayed over, were absorbed in the Hindu Society. But the invaders who came during thelast ten or twelve centuries could not be driven out. They could not be absorbed either. They remained a separate entity and ruled as foreigners in this land.
Bunch of Thoughts - Guruji - p.117 in the file)
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Evaluating the Ideology of Hindurashtra
TANIKA SARKAR
India International Centre Quarterly
India International Centre Quarterly
Vol. 22, No. 1, SECULARISM IN CRISIS (SPRING 1995), pp. 137-142 (6 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23003716?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/02/03/i-could-not-be-hindu-is-unique-testimony-to-sangh-s-casteism-pub-81000
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2018/columnists/hedgewar--a-native-vision-of-nationhood.html
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