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[–] tko@tkohhh.social 3 points 11 months ago

invented by people from Pakistan who were just living in India

Pakistan was part of India until 1947. These guys ended up on the Pakistan side of the partition, and then returned to India as refugees.

I'm not sure that it's fair to say that they weren't Indian.