Benjamin B. Cohen
Benjamin B. Cohen is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah. He is an author and a scholar of South Asia with a particular interest in the early-modern and modern periods of the subcontinent’s history.
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How the Idea of ‘India’ Came About
For the Mughal rulers, whose control covered much of the subcontinent, India could be imagined as something close to a unified state. However, for the millions of people beneath their rule, no sense of a “nation” or being part of “India” is evident.