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Article: Unfinished business: Plenty at home and abroad, for both countries.(India, Pakistan)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 22, 1999
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THERE is an unfinished quality to the work begun at partition and independence. India's constitution is full of clues to irresolution. It proposes a uniform civil code for all citizens, yet Muslims and Christians are governed by their own personal law; it sets a deadline for ending caste reservations in parliaments, but the date keeps shifting; it says English will wither away as an official language, but its use persists. Pakistan sees itself as an Islamic republic but is not sure how much authority religion should carry, and whether it should subsume ethnic and regional identities. With no colonist around, Pakistan and India have accused each other of thwarting national ...
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