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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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[-] unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Never attribute malice to that which can be easily explained by incompetence

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

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.

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