As a large country with a population second only to China, India has a history of thousands of years of civilization, but some people predict that India will split into several countries in the twenty-first century, which really shocks most people.
A good country with an ancient civilization, military equipment and economic strength are performing well, why will it fall apart or even fall apart?
In fact, these are all sins created by the Indians themselves.
1. India: Divided and merged since ancient times
As we all know, there are more than 100 ethnic groups and 1,600 languages in India, and ethnic contradictions and territorial disputes have not stopped since ancient times, which can first originate from the Aryan group wars in the Vedic era, and the subsequent sixteen kingdoms are almost exactly the same as the Spring and Autumn Warring States on the mainland.
And one of the most important reasons for the dispute is the difference in religious beliefs. India's native religion is Hinduism, but the Muslims who migrated from Central Asia historically are staunch Islamists, and the two sects have only begun a millennia-long confrontation for leadership.
Until the arrival of modern British colonialists, India was still a situation of coexistence of large and small princely states. At the time of British colonial rule, these princely states surrendered without much resistance, of course, the British were not familiar with India's national conditions, and they wanted to unify all the princely states under their jurisdiction.
However, these princely states miscalculated, and the long-term colonial rule for a hundred years allowed Indians to see the ugly face of the British colonizers, so India began to unite tacitly, whether it was Muslims or Hindus. In 1916, the Congress Party, representing Hinduism, and Islam represented the Muslim League signed an agreement to jointly fight the British colonialists.
It turned out that unity was strength, and the British were eventually broken and India became independent, but it was far from over. With the expulsion of foreign enemies, the Indians began to stir up again, and the rift in the seemingly unbreakable united camp gradually widened. However, the decision of the government after India's independence to deal with local contradictions is one word - rotten!
Let's first look at which places have independent tendencies?
Second, the east, west, south and north are unstable
The stubbornness of the "Northeasterners"
If you open the map of the modern world, when you move your gaze to the subcontinent, you will find a strange phenomenon, there is an inconspicuous place in the northeast of India, the six northeastern states, which seems to be the territory of India, but only a narrow Siliguri corridor is connected to the Indian mainland, which objectively causes it to be incompatible with India, and it is also the most dissatisfied with the Indian government.
The inhabitants of the six northeastern states are basically not natives, either immigrants from southern China or immigrants from Myanmar and Mongolia, and speak with Tibeto-Burman accents, which are not in any way compatible with India. But when the British colonists arrived, they had no choice but to submit to the British and be included in India.
But this group of "Northeasterners" is very stubborn, after India's independence, they want to get rid of Indian control, from time to time to create a little chaos, and the result of its internal referendum is that 96% of the people agree to independence, which makes the Indian government angry. Even if the Indian government sends the Assam Rifles to suppress it, it still cannot extinguish the flame of independence of the "Northeasterners", and they even formed the "Assam Liberation Front Alliance" to fight the Indian army, which has not stopped until now.
If India is really divided in the future, then this gang of "northeasterners" must be the most active among them.
"Kashmir" wants freedom
As mentioned above, the Congress Party and the Muslim League used to work together against the British colonialists, but in fact the basis of this "synergy" was extremely shallow, because it itself represented the interests of different camps. Soon, the leader of the Muslim League Jinnah proposed the creation of a state of their own, but how could the leader of the Congress party, Jawaharlal Nehru, agree? In a fit of rage, Jinnah led Muslims to independence and established a rivalry between Pakistan and India.
Pakistan's separation from India is not a big deal, but the "Kashmir" between India and Pakistan is a headache for India, and both countries want to compete for the sovereignty of "Kashmir". Originally, the place was mostly Muslims, but the governor was a Hindu maharajah, who risked the world's condemnation to defect to India, but the Muslims were unwilling to ask Pakistan for help, which triggered the first Indo-Pakistani war.
Pakistan was weak, and the outcome of the war could be imagined, "Kashmir" was divided in two, Pakistan controlled only 25% of the population and 40% of the land, and most of the resources were obtained by India. Although the conflict on the surface has subsided, the internal contradiction has always existed. Muslims under Indian administration have a longing for Pakistan, and coupled with the calls of Pakistani compatriots, the phenomenon of smuggling has been repeatedly banned.
"Kashmir" just wants its own homeland, but it is ruthlessly ravaged by India, and the "Kashmir" issue will also become the cause of India's national division in the future.
The "Sikhs" are also not easy to mess with
The "Sikhs" are honest in the Indian state and have always lived a very dull life, and their contradictions against Hinduism are purely of the Indians' own making.
"Sikhs" are mainly concentrated in the western Punjab region, and like Pakistan, they have their own religious beliefs - Sikhism, which stipulates that everyone is equal, and Hinduism and Islam are completely different, Sikhism is not weak in inspiring the people at the bottom. Moreover, the "Sikhs" live in a flat terrain, abundant water sources, and very developed agriculture, which can provide half of the food for the Indians.
After Pakistan and India separated, India promised to win over the "Sikhs" and promised them a very high degree of autonomy, but the "Sikhs" at that time were very stupid and naïve, thinking that the Indian government was very sincere, and turned to the Indian government without thinking. Who knows that this is a conspiracy of India, after which India has to snatch a large amount of grain from the "Sikhs" every year, which causes the dissatisfaction of the "Sikhs".
At this time, the Second Indo-Pakistani War broke out, Pakistan briefly conquered Punjab and then withdrew, but the "Sikhs" did not have much hostility to Pakistan, which aroused the suspicion of the Indian government, and the Indian government took back the autonomy of the "Sikhs". Dissatisfied with the decision of the Indian government, the "Sikhs" proposed to the Indian government to establish an independent state, which was rejected by the Indian government.
The "Sikhs" felt that they could not politely ask for it, and the Indian government wanted to fight it hard, so they secretly assassinated Hindus and often created local chaos. In 1984, the Indian National Congress directly sent 100,000 troops to attack the Punjab, executed more than 1,000 Sikh leaders and other people, and captured the Sikh Golden Temple; But India's prime minister was also assassinated by radical "Sikhs." For a long time thereafter, the hatred between "Sikhs" and Hinduism deepened.
The "Sikhs" were shot innocently, and if it was split from India, it would really be a sin of the Indians' own making.
Southern India was not convinced
If the above division was due to religious differences, the revolt in southern India was really because of language.
Southern India is the Deccan Plateau, and there is a natural barrier from the central and northern parts of India, so the independence of the south is not bad compared to other places. Although there are also large and small princely states in the south, the differences in language are very small, they all belong to the Delavida language family, and they are also united internally.
But the princely states in the south may also be "not deeply involved in the world", and they have been used by the Indian government like the "Sikhs". After India's independence in 1947, the government also promised the southern princely states a high degree of autonomy, and the southern princely states also willingly obeyed the Indian government.
However, with the social turmoil in the country, the emergence of separatist events such as the partition of India and Pakistan, and the independence of the six northeastern states, the Indian government has become very sensitive, believing that only the existence of a common language and religion can keep India stable and unified. So since the fifties of the last century, the Indian government has made Hindi an official language, requiring that no native language be spoken throughout the country.
This caused dissatisfaction among the southern princely states, and how could the language handed down by the ancestors for thousands of years be canceled, and the fierce Tamils even openly rebelled, stipulating that teachers must use Tamil to teach in Tamil. Faced with this situation, the Indian government is also helpless, and this confrontation has existed to this day.
epilogue
These contradictions with India mentioned above can actually be considered innocent, but the Indian government seems to be immature, the handling of domestic problems is not smooth enough, blindly using tough measures will only make things worse, the Indian government wants to avoid division, can only do its own thing.
I don't know what you think about the fragmentation of the Indian country, welcome to comment.
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