southasiatimeline

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  • India wins Independence

    Political because they because they became independent.

  • British colonial rule over India ends. A largely Muslim state comprising East and West Pakistan is established, either side of India. The two provinces are separated from each other by more than 1,500 km of Indian territory.

    Social because muslim and west pakistan is stablished.

  • Muslim state of East and West Pakistan created out of partition of India at the end of British rule

    Economic because more ppl

  • First Indo-pakistani war over kashmir ends, but decades long conflicts begins

    Political because war conflict

  • First war with India over disputed territory of Kashmir.

    Political because pakistan in war

  • Ceylon gains full independence.

    Politcial because sri lanka is independent

  • Kashmir is partitioned between India and Pakistan, with a ceasefire line agreed.

    comunitcaion between countries

  • - Slavery abolished.

    Polictical because theyre was slaves in bhutan

  • China defeats India in a brief war in a dispute over the Aksai Chin border area.

    political war

  • Second Indo-Pakistan war over Kashmir ends in a ceasefire.

    political 2nd war

  • East Pakistan attempts to secede, leading to civil war. India intervenes in support of East Pakistan which eventually breaks away to become Bangladesh.

    Economy because the economy was split.

  • Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka.

    Economic for sri lanka only

  • India Tests it first Nuclear bomg

    Social because others knew

  • First foreign tourists allowed in.

    Economic alllowed people in their economy

  • Nasir retires, replaced by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.

    Political because he retired and replaced in maldives

  • 1981 - President Ziaur Rahman assassinated during abortive military coup.

    Political Bangladeshs president was killed

  • Start of civil war.

    Social/political war between people

  • 1990 - Thousands of Hindus flee to Nepal following clashes.

    political they want clash

  • - Nepali Congress Party wins first democratic elections.

    political because they win

  • President Premadasa killed in LTTE bomb attack.

    Political sri lanka president is gone need new one
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    War rages across north and east. Tigers bomb Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist site. President Kumaratunga is wounded in a bomb attack. Suicide attack on the international airport destroys half the Sri Lankan Airlines fleet.

    political war bombs

  • Population reaches One billion

    Social because the more people

  • Scores of people are killed and many islands suffer severe damage when a tsunami generated by a powerful undersea earthquake off the Indonesian coast hits the Maldives. The government says the disaster set development work back by 20 years.

    social because families were killed

  • Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated while on campaign trail for 2008 parliamentary election.

    Polictical because their prime minister was killed in pakistan

  • - Nepal becomes a republic after abolition of monarchy.

    Polictical because became monarchy

  • India and Pakistan open trade route across the Line of Control for the first time in six decades.

    social 2 countries

  • Anti-India protests in Indian-administered Kashmir in which over 100 youths are killed.

    social deny

  • Ashraf Ghani elected president. NATO formally ends its combat mission in Afghanistan, handing over to Afghan forces, who face a growing insurgency.

    political new pres.
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    Bangladesh faces a campaign of violence by Islamists against bloggers, atheists and secular intellectuals.

    Social because confict against religion

  • September - New constitution adopted - the first in Asia to specifically protect gay rights.

    Social because they welcome all people

  • Former president Mohammed Nasheed is jailed for 13 years after being found guilty on terrorism charges. The verdict, which his party says is politically motivated. elicits international concern from governments and rights groups.

    Political because president lost in maldives

  • Elections in Jammu and Kashmir see India's ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party emerge as a major political player in the region for the first time when it forms part of a coalition government with the regional Muslim People's Democratic Party.

    Political watershed

  • September - Opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih scores surprise win over President Abdulla Yameen in presidential election.

    Political new president in maldives

  • Political turmoil as government defies Supreme Court order to free prisoners whose convictions it had quashed.

  • Taliban recapture Kabul after US forces withdraw.

    Economy they got larger