Depends on how you define it.
Britain actually has artifacts and stone art that definitely date to approx 12,000BC (14,000 years ago). Caves in Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire, actually have cave drawings and carvings of animals that went extinct before and during the last Iceage. If you base an estimate of age on those, Britain could date as far back as 20,000 years ago.
India, on the other hand, India's oldest "artifacts" are some bits of wood found off the coast that probably date to approx 7,500BC (9,500 years ago).
The problem with basing age on artifacts is that if the area has been populated for long, the more recent people invariably destroy the older traces without knowing. India could in fact have had people 15,000BC but any sign of them has been wiped out in the years since. Places like Britain, that date to pre-Iceage times, would have had literally everything wiped clean by the advancing and retreating ice. In Britain, the oldest evidence is found in protected caves....in India, in villages sunk off the coast.
Any criteria you could pick to use as a yardstick would almost invariably be canted toward Britain, though. Oldest religion? Britain. Oldest language? Britain. Oldest continuing unbroken society? Britain. Oldest written alphabet? Britain.
Sorry.
2007-03-13 11:27:52
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answered by randkl 6
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Yes, we have, subcontinent has as old culture as 5000years.
2007-03-13 03:35:32
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answered by Khurram 3
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