A graphic video showing two women forced by a baying mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on so…
A graphic video showing two women forced by a baying mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on so…
Maybe the British forcibly separating a long United nation along religious lines wasn’t the greatest idea. Well, unless their goal was to stoke religious animosity and prevent any meaningful coalition forming between the two against the west… Then I’d say it worked pretty well.
Both Pakistan and India voted against the plan yo partition Palestine in 1948. Sadly, the vote wasn’t even given to the Palestinians.
Anyway, its remarkable to see Pakistan and India agree on something: the British coming-in and making borders in another country is a bad thing.
It’s interesting to speculate what the relationship between Muslims and Hindus would have been if partition never occurred, but given that Hindus have been terrorising other Hindus along ethnic and state lines, as well as other religious minorities altogether, I don’t think it would have been too different.
Hindu nationalism developed as a response to British Colonialism, and, Hindutva was first elaborated in 1923, as tensions were rising within the colonial British Raj.
British colonialism bad. Get that out of the way first.
But conflict along ethnic and regional lines has been occurring in India, between Hindus, for a LONG time.
Let’s list the effects of British Colonalism
For more read: -This -This -This
And yes. Religious and ethnic problems were already here but Brits exacerbated it.