Funny as this may be, it's a nice place for me to make a point I've made elsewhere before:
Modern India can be said to start either in 1857 or 1947, which gives us less than 1/4th of the time the Cholas ruled, less than half the time of the Mauryas and Guptas, about 1/4th of the Mughal rule, and an incredible tenth of the time the Indus Valley civilization stood for...
What makes us think we're more stable than those who preceded us?