The epic, Mahabharata, in describing that great prehistoric civil war not only unquestioningly assumes the ‘oneness’ of the vast subcontinent, but also looks upon the lands of Bactria and China, beyond its great mountain ranges, as outlying frontier regions, inseparable, inalienable, and natural parts of the Indian subcontinent.
Ahsan, Aitzaz. The Indus Saga and the Making of Pakistan (1996)
This is wrong. In the Mahabharata, Bactria and China are treated as foreign lands inhabited by outsiders to the Vedic culture.
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