.WHEN INDIA got independence from Britain in 1947, few outside the country strongly believed that a union of such assorted conditions could possibly hold together. India has actually survived– however certainly not without threats to its own uniformity. One of the absolute most enduring has been actually the Khalistan activity, which looks for to develop an individual home for Sikhs.
On September 18th Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, alleged that Indian federal government representatives lagged the killing, in June, of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian Sikh leader who maintained self-reliance for Khalistan. India’s authorities, which denies any kind of participation, has accused Canada of harbouring “terrorists and separatists”. How severe is the Khalistan movement?