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India is too big for its government to manage.
Even places like EU with a similar area, have many sovereign governments running the place.
However the Indian territory has one sovereign government running it using 1 of the ~18 officially spoken languages and ~18 corresponding cultures.
> inb4 state governments. State governments are not sovereign and by that I mean they cannot be really independent.
The Indian union is too diverse for it to be one nation.
> inb4 USA, Russia and China are big too. USA, Russia and China speak one official language, and are more culturally homogeneous. Sure they will cite small differences, but it is nothing compared to the diversity you would see in India if you between the different states of India.
Most likely the stereotype of India inside your head is probably just one of the many stereotypes there are in India.
> inb4 it is the fault of the non-Hindu religion there is so much diversity. Hinduism itself is so diverse, there are perimeter gods not part of any mainstream pantheon. Sure some Brahmin might tell you these lesser known gods are incarnations of more well known gods, but I see that as a unification strategy.
Until very recently India was many different countries.
Even the largest empires did not dare to manage a region as large as Indian government is trying to manage today.
Indians really want to manage everything from borders of Iran until islands of West Indonesia.
