Unit 8.6 - State Building

"New nations from decolonzation"

Creation Date: Fri Mar 14 2025

Publication Date: Tue Apr 01 2025

Creation of new States

This was basically a mess. Now matter if negotiated or conflict, independence lead to the rise of new conflicts in previous colonized regions.

Examples

• India & Pakistan

  • So far under Gandhi the Muslims and Hindu remained somewhat united .
  • There goes Gandhi and he is assassinated
  • Muslims split into the Muslims League seeking a separate Muslim state
  • As a result we got Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh

  • Kashmir Conflict

    • Yeah you didn’t think this was gonna be so peaceful now would it.
    • After that partition there was a large scale migration based on religious lines
    • Both India and Pakistan claim the province of Kashmir
      • Kashmir was important because resources
      • More Muslim than Hindu
      • Owned by India
    • Both fought for the region, also more migration.

• Israel & Palestine

  • So under the Zionist movement there had been mass migration by Jews to the region of Palestine.
  • Arabs also lived there
  • Owned by the British who handed the job of spiting Israel to the UN
  • Created Israel & Palestine, and because Arabs and Jews had conflicting religions the region became a hot spot for turmoil
  • Still in conflict today.

• Egypt

  • We all know the policies that was enacted by Gamal Abdul Nasser
    • Socialism
    • Land Reforms
    • Infrastructure development
  • Except when he nationalized the Suez Canal the region went to conflict
  • Now you have the USA and USSR fighting to secure their interests

But How

Remember how there were a lot of intellectuals who became the main driving force for independence? How did they get educated? No this is not chat-gpted, I just am not doing this at 3am.

Metropoles

• So a lot of people from colonies migrated to their land of their colonizers
• They studied there and became very educated
  • Why does this sound like my life
• Became influenced by enlightenment ideas
• When they came they lead independence movements.

• Migration after decolonization

  • They still continued to do this even after indipendance
  • Seen as a way to gain better opportunities at life
  • Also lead to mix of many nationalities