They were instead Indian Muslims settled in the state before 1971, who were ready to fight back.
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Indian Muslims had a history of violent opposition to the British that was at odds with Gandhi's non-violence.
There are also complaints by Indian Muslims about the way Kashmir is progressing, that enclave, and that is a huge, huge flashpoint.
For Pakistan, founded as a homeland for all Indian Muslims, the Sunni-Shia divide is an awkward subject that many would rather ignore.
Despite these worrying signs, Indian officials have so far resisted suggestions that Indian Muslims are being radicalised and joining a global jihad.
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According to Wikileaks, Mr Gandhi told a US envoy last year there was some support among Indian Muslims for militants such as Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The country had been set up as a homeland for Indian Muslims, but it had been a more or less secular state, as envisaged by its founder, the clean-shaven, tweed-jacketed, and Anglicized Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Simmering discontent among Muslims in the Indian-run part of Kashmir exploded into revolt in 1989.
In the past year alone, Jamaat-e-Islami and Hefazat-e-Islam activists rioted in Bangladesh, Muslim protestors temporarily shuttered the U.S. consulate in Calcutta protesting the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims, " and violence erupted between non-Muslims and Muslims in Burma and the Indian state of Assam.
The Cape's 400, 000 Muslims, who are mainly Coloured or Indian, have long felt ostracised from the country's fervently Christian mainstream.
The British army's introduction in 1857 of rifle cartridges believed to be greased with a mixture of beef and pork fat defiling substances to Hindus and Muslims sparked thousands of discontented Indian soldiers to rise up against British rule.
Most recently, the Indian government is reported to have administered thiopental last June to seven Muslims suspected of causing the Gujarat train fire.
Here I will merely provide a brief overview of Pakistan within the larger context of Indian history, or more appropriately, the history of Islam and Muslims in India.
As early as the 1990s, the Indian government started to downsize, leaving fewer public-sector jobs for poor Hindus, not to mention Muslims.
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