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by atonse
269 days ago
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Decolonization in most cases required the colonial power to give independence back to each country. It wasn’t that a bunch of countries magically started to recognize India as an independent nation and everyone just went along, right? |
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The independence of India was immediately followed by a sectarian war between muslims and hindus in India (started by muslims) which by a number of measures was bigger than WW2. Gandhi immediately turned into the commander-in-chief in this war, a war where millions died, and Gandhi came out on top.
After which Pakistan, now independent, started another war with yet again millions of dead, against "East-Pakistan", to prevent their independence, now known as Bangladesh. This war was a continuation of the partition wars in many ways.
Pakistan is not far from starting another of these wars, by the way, against "Balochistan", the south west of Pakistan.