How could it not, for to quote Mark Twain,

“India is,
the cradle of the human race,
the birthplace of human speech,
the mother of history,
the grandmother of legend,
and the great grand mother of tradition.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials
in the history of man
are treasured up in India.”
 
 
“Mother India has marked us deeply and only for the better – for all time.”
 
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