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Decolonization in most cases required the colonial power to give independence back to each country. It wasn’t that a bunch of countries magically started to re

• spwa4 1y ago
  The India that gained independence is India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + some rounding errors. The independence of India was immediately followed by a sectarian war between muslims and hindus in India (started by muslims) which by a number of measures was bigger than WW2. Gandhi immediately turned into the commander-in-chief in this war, a war where millions died, and Gandhi came out on top. After which Pakistan, now independent, started another war with yet again millions of dead, against "East-Pakistan", to prevent their independence, now known as Bangladesh. This war was a continuation of the partition wars in many ways. Pakistan is not far from starting another of these wars, by the way, against "Balochistan", the south west of Pakistan.