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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 (lemmy.ml)

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[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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.

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