You literally do it all the time. And yes, quite frankly, we do own India. Because as I said before; foreign, supremacist, pan-national ideologies have ensured that even those people who were originally native converts become little nations of their own - and start viewing themselves as separate from (and better than) the Hindus they descended from. This has most clearly manifested amongst India's Muslims. For them, they're an extension of Islam, which ruled from Spain to India once upon a time.
And by virtue of the fact that India is the birthplace of the Dharmic religions, and the main country which houses most Dharmic people - with no real backup homeland left; we do own India.