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It is said that India bashing by its neighbouring countries is directly or indirectly linked to their internal social conflicts. Explain with the help of developments in Indo-Pak and Indo-Srilankan relations.

  • UPSC 1995
  • India and South Asia

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The proposition is a regional version of the diversionary theory of conflict: rulers facing internal division look for an external enemy to unite their societies. Jack S. Levy's 1989 critique showed that the theory is plausible but conditional. In South Asia, asymmetry makes India the obvious target. Brantly Womack's asymmetry theory (2006) shows why: the…

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  • The mechanism
  • Pakistan: an institutionalised version
  • Sri Lanka: majoritarianism and the Tamil question
  • Limits of the proposition
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