how has India managed to avoid balkanisation despite great poverty

>>2040142
because the indian state allows for people to dissent and give their views and opinions without cracking down on them and it's federal structure effectively allows different states to ensure their culture and heritage aren't suppressed to create a broader national identity.

>>2040168
This. There are states that are run by literal commies.

>>2040176
Now run by literal north korea tier memers that throw big parties and look the other way when you smoke weed.

>>2040142
Because it balkanized right at the start and all of its most serious agitators were appeased

>>2040249
eh, it was partitioned at the start, not balkanized.

>>2040276
Same thing in practice. the point is that it did all its serious splitting up early on

>>2040283
>in practice
how is it the same in practice?

>>2040142
The structure of the government encourages both regionalism and civic nationalism.

british imperialism

What about Pakistan and Bangladesh?

>>2040994
what about them?

>>2040994
Pakistan is what would have happened had India not adopted a federal structure and instead became a centralising, one language only nation-state. In short, at some point, the politically dominant West Pakistan decided to adopt Urdu only policies centralising more and more power on the West, this was a problem because the East had always used Bengal.

Eventually this put them on a path to confrontation, war and secession.

Because Pakistan.

>>2040142
Federalism.

Why China hasnt tried this, nobody knows.

Poo in the loo

>>2040176
The commie state is the most developed one.

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>>2041638
China did. You know what happened.
>Uyghurs: WE WUZ EAST TURKESTAN AND SHIET.
>Tibet: WE WUZ FREE N SHIET. WE SIGNED NO BILATERAL DEALS WITH THE QINGZ N SHIET, WAAAH.
>Assorted Warlords: Hi we r tr00 republic's army, ghib us autonomus government over occupied provinces XDDD
>Northern China: CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY FOR PUYI NOT FULL US-STYLE FEDERAL REPUBLIC REEEE.
1930s: Both KMT and CCP: "Federalism was a mistake, we should end these people's independence."

>>2041379
Sri Lanka too had a Civil War because They shat on the Tamil too much