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decolonization process of an entire subcontinent with minimal effort. A better solution could have been implemented by taking time to fully evaluate the proper way to handle decolonizing one of the most densely populated places on earth. Even then still something more shocking is that this was a process repeated across the entire world throughout the decades following the second world war. Hundreds of millions of people were suddenly divided into modern nation states that oftentimes contradicted with local beliefs and practices. The decolonization process was done in a way to preserve a western style of governance by establishing governments forcing a foreign country's structure of governance in the shape of a “nation state.”8 In reality many of these nation states borders encompassed hundreds of ethnic and linguistic groups with no real sense of national unity, leading to the nation state model to allow for nationalism, totalitarianism, and illiberal democratic practices to undermine the thinly established democracies based foreign countries example. This is exactly the scenario that happened in the Indian Subcontinent and the exact scenario that played out all across the global south throughout the 1950’s-60’s. Clearly decolonization processes at least by the British Empire in the Indian Subcontinent were deeply flawed and completely failed in establishing order and security in nations granted independence after more than a century subjugation.
8 Mahatma Gandhi, Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi. https://www.gandhiservefoundation.org/about-mahatma- gandhi/collected-works-of-mahatma-gandhi/
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