You can call the Mahabharata mythology. You can even give it an AIT date of 600 BCE & not the researched date of 5561 BCE. But how come a Hindu text incorporated places all over India as part of the narrative long before the Brits or Mughals? Hindu dharma made India

"Drink mootar; your head smells of cowdung; bhakt" are the usual reactions to people who recall what originally made India one civilizational whole. But calling people names does not erase the past, it only reveals denial & anger that the coolienized version of the past is trash

For the heck of it let me add a piece I had written and welcome rebuttals. It is about the Saraswati river that has been geologically dated to have dried up around 2500 BCE. A drying Saraswati is mentioned in the Mahabharata. Do read and share https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qhpbs44OLskpKAigxbvd4fa4F8tA4J72/view?usp=sharing