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Nearly 80 years after London crudely hacked British India in two, an Indian state minister has suggested that it be sewn back together – by merging India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
‘We have been saying that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh should be merged,’ said Maharashtra state Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik, of the left-leaning Nationalist Congress Party (INC).
Malik was responding on Sunday to a comment by Devendra Fadnavis, leader of a local chapter of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who said: ‘We believe in 'Akhand Bharat.' We also believe that Karachi will be a part of India one day.’
Fadnavis, in turn, was responding to calls by a leader of the far-right Shiv Sena party to have the word ‘Karachi’ removed from a shop in Mumbai called ‘Karachi Sweets.’
Quite the escalation.
'Akhand Bharat' translates as ‘United India’. It’s an idea popular among Hindu nationalists, such as Shiv Sena and the BJP, and emerged before the British divided the country into India and Pakistan in the 1947 partition (Bangladesh separated from Pakistan in 1971).
It was a partition along religious lines and displaced an estimated 12 million Hindus and Muslims, causing a migration crisis and political tension that has, at times, had many worrying about nuclear war between the two nations.
‘We have been saying that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh should be merged,’ said Maharashtra state Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik, of the left-leaning Nationalist Congress Party (INC).
Malik was responding on Sunday to a comment by Devendra Fadnavis, leader of a local chapter of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who said: ‘We believe in 'Akhand Bharat.' We also believe that Karachi will be a part of India one day.’
Fadnavis, in turn, was responding to calls by a leader of the far-right Shiv Sena party to have the word ‘Karachi’ removed from a shop in Mumbai called ‘Karachi Sweets.’
Quite the escalation.
'Akhand Bharat' translates as ‘United India’. It’s an idea popular among Hindu nationalists, such as Shiv Sena and the BJP, and emerged before the British divided the country into India and Pakistan in the 1947 partition (Bangladesh separated from Pakistan in 1971).
It was a partition along religious lines and displaced an estimated 12 million Hindus and Muslims, causing a migration crisis and political tension that has, at times, had many worrying about nuclear war between the two nations.
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