India's Hindus considered the subcontinent a single country for centuries, even before foreign powers tied its disparate kingdoms together (see previous article). The country's four corners were marked by dhams, or pilgrimage centres, from at least as early as the 8th century. But Indians did not create maps-this task fell largely to Europeans, says Manosi Lahiri in her richly illustrated book, "Mapping India".
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