.WHEN INDIA gained independence from Britain in 1947, handful of outside the nation strongly believed that a union of such assorted conditions could possibly hold all together. India has actually endured– but certainly not without risks to its unity. Some of the absolute most long-lasting has actually been actually the Khalistan motion, which looks for towards establish a private homeland for Sikhs.
On September 18th Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, affirmed that Indian federal government agents were behind the killing, in June, of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian Sikh forerunner that maintained independence for Khalistan. India’s federal government, which refuses any sort of participation, has actually implicated Canada of harbouring “revolutionaries as well as separatists”. Just how significant is actually the Khalistan movement?