India seeks stronger ties with South Asian governments, snubbing ethnic minorities again
New Indian ExpressHari Har Jnawali, Wilfrid Laurier University India’s regional politics are shifting. It is seeking to strengthen ties with South Asian ruling elites, including in Nepal and Sri Lanka, while ignoring ongoing ethnic uprisings in those countries in the hopes of securing its geopolitical interests. In 2019, for example, Narendra Modi’s government decided to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as an autonomous region, a move recently upheld by India’s Supreme Court. In 1971, India intervened in the ethnic conflict in Pakistan when Bengali Muslims pursued independent statehood to become modern-day Bangladesh. All of these efforts — past and present — to support ethnic movements in neighbouring countries have failed to help India achieve major player status in the region.
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