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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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[โ€“] Chocrates@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days 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.