How does hinduism relate to the india pakistan conflict?
The majority of Indians are Hindus, and the majority of Pakistanis are Muslims. In each country, religious clashes (generally taking the forms of persecution of the local minority and retaliation for prior incidents) take on an international diplomatic weight, in part because of the sixty years of history between the two countries. On independence from England in 1948, India split into two nation-states. There was the Muslim-majority East Bengal (now Bangladesh) in the east, the Hindu-majority India in the center, and the Muslim-majority West Bengal (now Pakistan) in the northwest. About a million people died trying to move to areas where they felt more secure because of religion. Since then, and since West Bengal separated from East Bengal, India and Pakistan have fought three wars. And they jointly govern the border state of Jammu and Kashmir, where there are frequent clashes over religion and national allegiance and land rights and the memory of wrongs committed or imagined (but pro
