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Why do ethnic conflicts and insurgencies continue to remain major impediments to regional cooperation in South-Asia?

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • India and South Asia

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South Asia's political map and its ethnic map were drawn by different hands. Bengalis, Tamils, Pashtuns, Baloch, Nagas, the Kuki-Chin-Zo peoples and Madhesis all have kin across a frontier. That fact turns a domestic failure of accommodation into an inter-state quarrel, which is why the problem persists rather than fading.

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  • Roots: nation-building that produced its own minorities
  • Mechanisms that carry conflict across borders
  • Why regional institutions cannot absorb it
  • Conclusion
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