<<Cornel wrote: Once again, I have been very critical of Britain initiating the split to maintain its toe-hold in the sub-continent. A secular big India was infinitely preferrable to me than a religious based Pakistan split from India.>>
It's not irrational to believe that an undivided India would have been untenable on many counts: too big and ungovernable with too many pulls and pressures -- not to speak of the sectarian violence and even civil wars that are all too conceivable. True secularism and democracy are unpalatable concepts to vast sections of the South Asian population. -- RKN _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
