Without European colonization would India ever unite?

The arrival of Islam in India was an unprecedented experience in the cultural realm of the subcontinent. India had faced conquerors like the Greek and the Huns in the past, but had succeeded in absorbing them into her own cultural sphere. Remember the Greek rulers who adopted the Buddhist religion and established Indo-Greek kingdoms. The Huns who came as the most vicious conquerors became a part of the Indian society and the proud Rajputs are said to be their offspring.
But Islam was not so easy to be digested. No wonder, Islam had changed the characteristics of all the lands that it had conquered. The old cultures in North Africa and the West Asia were all wiped away. The centers of ancient civilizations like Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia had a total break with their past and Islamic culture became dominant everywhere. Of all the places conquered by Islam, India alone resisted to preserve her cultural traditions. Even after seven and more centuries of Islamic domination, only below one third of the population adopted Islam. But the interaction of this long period had also helped the growth of certain common traditions. Thus the religious divide was not such an unbreachable wall between people, unless it was purposefully nurtured by the rulers, as was done by the British.
Then the case of Aryan-Dravidian division. That is only a linguistic division and do not mark any cultural separation. Some groups in Tamilnadu had tried to blow up the so called Dravidianism, and demand a separate Dravidanadu. It received only a limited support even in Tamilnadu and the other Southern states like Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh totally ignored it. As such a Dravidian sentiment do not exist in the South, any counter Aryan sentiment has also not developed anywhere. There are disputes between the states, and they are always between neighboring states. It is similar to the fact that a dispute is unlikely to develop between Vietnam and Paraguay or between Finland and Ethiopia. I just wanted to point out that religious or linguistic differences are not insurmountable barricades in the process of nation building.
 
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