PS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: World Trade Organization, Bharatiya Janata Party, Nato
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2 secular national independence movements: the congress party and the muslim league. Mahatma gandhi: devout hindu; father of modern india . Although gandhi was a hindu, his policies were secular and democratic instead of hindu. Agreed with gandhi"s ideas on secular democracy, but he wanted to form a muslim state separate from india. The partition worked out, but it caused a lot of violence between india and pakistan. o. Thousands of citizens fought because where the borderlines were drawn. India and pakistan: 2 states - 3 wars o. 1998: india and pakistan both become nuclear countries (and demonstrate this). The us established a strong alliance with pakistan during the cold war, which still remains today: why does the us have a better relationship with pakistan, which is next to afghanistan, than it does with. During the post-cold war administration (clinton), an initiative created an alliance with india.