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Country Profile: India The world's second most populous country has emerged as a major power after a period of foreign rule and several decades during which its economy was virtually closed. It has developed the capacity to strike at China and arch-rival Pakistan with its own missiles, and has carried out a programme of nuclear tests in defiance of world opinion. However, India is still struggling with huge social, economic and environmental problems. The vast and diverse Indian sub-continent - stretching from the mountainous Afghan frontier across to the jungles of Burma - was subject to foreign rule from the early 1800s until the demise of the British Raj in 1947. But the subsequent partition of the sub-continent sowed the seeds for future conflict with three wars between India and Pakistan since 1947. Communal, caste and regional tensions continue to haunt Indian politics, sometimes threatening its long-standing democratic and secular...

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