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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 (europe.pub)
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[–] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago

Sectarian violence that was fostered by the British thanks to their ‘divide and rule’ strategy.