The Kashmir problem is part of the aftermath of the British partition of colonial India.
Far from limiting its war effort to fending off the encircling allied powers of Russia, France and Britain, German diplomats and soldiers tried to foment popular anti-colonial revolution in India and Egypt, to create a widespread Islamic jihad against the colonial rulers, to disrupt the allies' global communications.
Jewtown is the main source for antiques, especially colonial furniture, in South India.
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"It was more for a show but everything would be ready and then they would then go and take this Rolls Royce up to a point or the hills and from there shoot the tiger that was already captured by their servants, " Pran Nevile, a writer and expert on India's colonial history, told the Reuters news agency.
It is a fabulous and magical setting, furnished entirely with antiques (Indian and colonial European) bought in the markets of India.
They demand land and jobs for the poor, and ultimately want to establish a "communist society" by overthrowing India's "semi-colonial, semi-feudal" form of rule.
The same is true of India, with a long period of colonial subjugation.
After all, it was British colonial rulers who, at partition in 1947, drew the boundary line between India and Pakistan that the two nations have battled over ever since.
She is at the head of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has ruled India for most of the time since the country gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), of which Khyber is a part, is essentially a buffer between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and was carved by British colonial rulers out of Afghan territory as a bulwark against a possible Russian invasion of British India.
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Meanwhile, India does not produce much that China wants to buy, a hole that British colonial rulers once plugged with exports of Indian opium.
In Africa and Asia, the colonial rulers never practised democracy, though Britain made ever-so-timid, belated steps towards it in India.
Most of India's laws, including those on rape, were inherited from the country's former British colonial rulers and date to 1860.
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