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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€“] unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] saigot@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days 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.