It's almost like a colonial power intentionally divided the region so they'll be focused on infighting instead of competing with said colonial power
More British accountability finally. First this, next the kohinoor diamond!
Plenty of Benin Bronzes to return too.
Oh yes! I mean just empty out the British Museum
The bronzes are so heartbreaking.
Basic divide and conquer strategy. Nigeria, Armenia/Azerbaijan, Israel/Palestine.
What, they were one big peaceful team until the British? Need a little background here
Scanned that, and it appears that the Muslim and Hindu peoples were fighting
As independence approached, the violence between Hindus and Muslims in the provinces of Punjab and Bengal continued unabated.
There's a statement earlier that the fighting was instigated by the British, but it lacks citation.
The Congress was secular and strongly opposed to having any religious state.[96] It insisted there was a natural unity to India, and repeatedly blamed the British for "divide and rule" tactics based on prompting Muslims to think of themselves as alien from Hindus.[citation needed]
The Empire podcast goes quite deep into some of the issues and roots of partition. It was very clear that the English wanted out ASAP. One reason was the sectarian violence they could no longer contain.
Sectarian violence that was fostered by the British thanks to their ‘divide and rule’ strategy.
Never attribute malice to that which can be easily explained by incompetence
No Britian very much partitioned things in a way to minimize local power. I don't know about Pakistan in particular but the province of west bengal and Bangladesh were intentionally split up to weaken what was a strong nationalistic group.
oh britain.. one more thibg for your museum
I thought Kashmir was run by a Hindu at the time and they chose to go with India rather than Pakistan.
Definitely we can blame imperialism for a lot but some of the disputed territory wasn't Brittain's fault, afaik
My history is lacking on the conflict but IIRC the area was 'run' as a monarchy under British rule. The monarchy was Hindu but the population was largely Muslim.
So you had a local population in conflict with a ruling class inheriting being a mechanism of the colonial apparatus.
It worked so well the first time.... let's do it in Palestine!