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Economic growth picked up significantly for both India and Pakistan after independence, but they’ve chosen very different paths since.
The fate of the so-called princely states was a particularly contentious issue during India’s Partition, which killed about 1 million people and left millions more displaced.
Escalating tensions between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir border are a stark reminder that the subcontinent is one of the world’s likeliest nuclear flashpoints.
India and Pakistan have been fighting for control over Kashmir, an 86,000-square-mile territory in the Himalayas, for seven decades. But the people of Kashmir have their own political goals too.
In late November, the foundation stone was laid for a new visa-free corridor between two Sikh gurdwaras on either side of the India-Pakistan border.
‘Hotel Mumbai,’ which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, is an ‘anthem of resistance;’ a film that highlights the things ordinary people can do in extraordinary circumstances.
A religious minority of Pakistan, the Ahmadis have been boycotting elections for decades. Casting a vote would require that they denounce themselves as ‘non-Muslims.’
The panchayat justice system should be used as inspiration to develop a workable model for conflict resolution in India and Pakistan.
Ever since partition in 1947, South Asia’s two biggest players have been locked in sibling rivalry.
The partition of India led to more than a million deaths. A scholar argues how British royal, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who hurriedly drew the new borders in secret, was largely responsible.
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Doctoral Candidate, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University
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Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Fellow, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of International Relations, Boston University
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Professor of History, William & Mary
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
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Researcher, University of Otago
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Senior Lecturer in Modern South Asian History, De Montfort University
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Professor of International Relations, University of Otago
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington
