so if Pakistan is a Islamic nation, what POD would we need for the partition of India to give us a 3rd, Sikh nation?
OK, so this gets raised a lot and it has some clear problems.
1. Yes, 2. Quite easy, and 3. The trouble is that the Sikhs were viewed as being too close to Britain (for obvious reasons--as a useful 'martial race' to keep order from our point of view, and to ensure their former persecution by Hindus and Muslims didn't resume from theirs).If I understand correctly, the Sikh religion is relatively new as these things go, 15th or 16th CE right? How easy is it to convert to? What sort of events could have caused more conversions from the more numerous Hindus and Moslems in the region?