.WHEN INDIA acquired self-reliance from Britain in 1947, few outside the country strongly believed that a union of such assorted states can hold together. India has actually endured– yet not without hazards to its own oneness. Some of the most long-lasting has actually been the Khalistan motion, which seeks towards create an individual home for Sikhs.
On September 18th Canada’s head of state, Justin Trudeau, affirmed that Indian authorities brokers were behind the killing, in June, of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian Sikh leader that supported independence for Khalistan. India’s authorities, which rejects any sort of participation, has actually implicated Canada of harbouring “terrorists and also separationists”. Just how significant is the Khalistan movement?