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In the 60 years since India attained independence and the rupture of a bloody partition that led to the creation of Pakistan, the two countries are viewed as having followed widely divergent paths [which reflects the] struggle between the good and the bad within each self … India and Pakistan, not exactly twins but nevertheless birthed as nation-states from the same fount of an Indo-Islamic culture, has been cast in the similar mold of two entities that have fallen on either side of the law (Lal, 2008, p. 100).
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Srivastava, J. (2014). India-Pakistan and Civilizational Subtext: Problematizing the Binaries. In: Vassort-Rousset, B. (eds) Building Sustainable Couples in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273543_10
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