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Old India is the term Indians use to refer to all the land they thought they owned within the historical past. This includes (west to east):
- part of Iran
- all of Afghanistan
- all of Pakistan
- all of Tajikistan
- almost half of Tibet
- all of Nepal
- all of India
- all of Bangladesh
- all of Bhutan
- all of Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia
- and last Brunei.
Warriors
It also refers to various groups of warriors:
- the Gurkhas (Nepalese-Mongolian), arguably the best warriors in the world. They were skilled in icy mountain battles of the Himalayas
- the Rajasthan militants, who were skilled in desert battles of the Thar desert
- the warriors of Punjab, who were skilled in domesticating and using lions and tigers in battle, plus elephants, but it is a myth that they used Indian rhinos in the battles.
Religion
It also refers to the time when it was thought that 25 percent of India's religion was each:
This term is mainly used in the Himalayas by great scholars, rishis , presits, pundits, and gurus.
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