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Were India and Pakistan Doomed at Birth?

Bad Beginning

Creating separate Pakistani and Indian states with the Partition of 1947, Great Britian sowed the discord and conflict that continue to flourish well over half a century later.

Wendy Smith
Wendy Smith
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Wendy Smith

Wendy Smith

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