just to drag this back on topic;
India and Pakistan didn't really exist as political entities before the 'British raj' which united a set of seprate and sometimes disparate princedoms into one country, India.
After the second world war the British gave in to demands for autonomy and that is where the muslim parts of Bangladesh and Pakistan secceded from India. In effect this is like the czech/balkans area which was held together then when the controlling power collapsed breaking up in an more or less acrimonius way.
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