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was done through using local Kings and Sultans, but also by using systems of indentured servitude and plantations. The multiple failures in British institutions resulted in Mass famine and hundreds of thousands of deaths throughout India. An example of this would be the Bengal famine during the WWII. This is one of many examples of the British government utilizing their colony to advance their own interest as the result of countless lives. A second example of this was the Amritsar massacre that took place during 1919. This event was a protest for individual rights and freedoms the British government was not providing them. In response to this the British fired on the crowd until the battalion ran out of ammunition killing over 1,000 people in under 10 minutes.
Both India and Pakistan were completely new political entities developed by British minds during the partition.3 India in the modern conception of was an intense idea for people living in the subcontinent. Hundreds of different ethnic groups and languages inhabited the vast land and not many of them identified with a greater Indian Identity. Much like Africa and the Middle East the British created this notion of a modern western state in India and completely uprooted traditions and cultures going back hundreds of years. Pakistan in specific was a country that was smaller than India and a population of much less. Pakistan was also initially created with the modern country of Bangladesh included within its borders. This patchwork country with two parts separated by India did not last long and soon Bangladesh was in open rebellion due to their extreme cultural difference from West Pakistan and the neglect the new government handed them. Due to how difficult it was for the Pakistani government in creating a new state they neglected their exclave within India.
3 Sarah Ansari, “How the Partition of India Happened – and Why Its Effects Are Still Felt Today,” The Conversation, December 6, 2020.
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