.WHEN INDIA got self-reliance coming from Britain in 1947, few outside the nation strongly believed that a union of such diverse states could possibly secure with each other. India has actually survived– yet not without threats to its own unity. Among the absolute most long-lasting has actually been actually the Khalistan movement, which looks for to develop an individual homeland for Sikhs.
On September 18th Canada’s head of state, Justin Trudeau, alleged that Indian authorities agents were behind the killing, in June, of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian Sikh leader who handled self-reliance for Khalistan. India’s authorities, which rejects any type of participation, has actually implicated Canada of harbouring “revolutionaries and also separationists”. How severe is actually the Khalistan movement?