Where Has it Ghandi?

Realistically, Gandhi’s policy and the Indian Independence movement were destructive for the sub-continent. India, as a country, is imaginary. It’s a conglomeration of disagreeable nationalities, creeds, and castes, placed on the world map by an arbitrary line drawn by civil service elite. The movement lacked majority support but was promulgated by British neglect. Until the unification, de-centralized government presided and each distinct culture was left to self-government provided they all traded with Britain and ceased slave trading. The conception of a homogenous India without regarding the peoples, cultures, and prejudices of the nation was swept up in the socialist agenda of the Congress Party (former IIM).
Gandhi’s own world view reflected such prejudices. He advocated keeping the entire country together, under arms, if necessary. He protested suffrage for the untouchables, one of the ethnic castes, and supported the invasion of all Portuguese controlled areas in modern India. The Indian constitution, which Gandhi presided over, displayed a disregard for constituent wishes and traditions. Additionally, only civil servants can appoint new civil servants, thus perpetuating the stagnant aristocracy. Indira Gandhi, his granddaughter, invaded Pakistan and violently curtailed the Sikh rebellion, killing five hundred participants in the sacred Golden Temple and causing a Sikh alliance with the Hindu Nationalists.
Because of legal definitions, British-Asian territories were all made different nations upon independence; Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Hong Kong, and Bhutan. Ethnic disunity had surfaced before independence in India. The Muslim population was against independence due to majority Hindu control, while the Hindu Nationalists strove to create a theocracy. The concentrated Muslim areas soon seceded to Pakistan in a very bloody exchange, while the Hindu Nationalists took Gandhi’s quote to heart, “Be the change you want to see in the world”, and shot him. The Cashmere, a Muslim populated and desirably productive area, held a referendum to become part of Pakistan, and was then invaded by India, which had written in constitutional protection of the area from by-ins by non-Cashmeries. The area was since partitioned between India, China, and Pakistan.
To compound the problems, there is totalitarian control of the electrical industry and artificial property rents assigned by local civil servants, which keeps rents low and development lower. Additionally, the Nationalist party is gaining strong support for the upcoming election, and is pushing to end the slaughter of beef, nationally, and annex all of Cashmere from Pakistan, as well as ban the conversion from Hinduism (to Islam or Christianity). Violent communist insurgencies in the eastern provinces have added to the social unrest while local communist regimes have controlled three states since the founding. Their influence has now spread into Nepal with funding from China, and recently taken control of the Nepalese government. Decreasing exports, Christian persecutions, and hyper inflation all compound the undesirable situation, which has caused considerable damage to attempts at peace and prosperity in the area. India is a contrivance, an amalgamation of irreconcilable cultures, and should be allowed to desist for the betterment of all within its borders.