The South Asian Nation needs to re-invent itself before it is torn apart by internecine conflicts.
In South Asia, ´nation´, ´nationalism´ and ´nationhood´ are all products of colonial history. There is no evidence of such concepts or ideas having any relevance to South Asia´s history prior to the arrival of the Europeans.
Indeed, the very fact that the Europeans (first the Portuguese, followed by the Dutch, the French and the British) arrived in South Asia as ´nations´ contributed to the diffusion of such ideas propagating a ´governing principle´ for reproducing and replacing colonialism— the former by way of organising the power of the colonialists for the benefit of the European fatherland and the latter by way of uniting the indigenous population under the leadership of the local dominant forces.
Nationalism in South Asia soon became one of the major tactics for organising the majority of the people for reproducing state power. But paradoxically, due to its alien-ness and the mechanical way it was applied, it also became a source of tension and unrest for pluralist South Asia.