Its a country almost 3x bigger than Europe, 4x bigger than US, and brutally diverse. Thousands of languages and tribes. People from west are very different to east, north and south is same. People who haven't experienced it first hand (or at least grokked the numbers properly) can't fathom how huge it is not just geographically but culturally. There is a reason why India is often referred to as subcontinent and people often do a mistake when mentally they think about it as 'just another country', especially in smaller European states.
Compared to say Europe over past 50 years internal conflicts have been miniscule.
Sikh conflict you may be referring to are events from 1984 IIRC.
> Sikh conflict you may be referring to are events from 1984 IIRC.
The 70s and 80s were the most intense, but it's far from isolated to just that period. There was a major row with Canada just last year because, according to Canada, the Indian government has been killing Sikh separatists in Canada.[1] Since there is no historical adversity between Canada and India, Canada has nothing to gain by seeking conflict and generally doesn't seek conflicts, I am inclined to believe the Canadian claims.
> can't fathom how huge it is not just geographically
I grew up in India but I don't agree that people in the west can't fathom how huge it is geographically. Geographically speaking India is the 7th largest country, and every country larger than India (Australia, Brazil, US, China, Canada and Russia) is at least 2 times to up to more than 5 times larger than India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
That said, I do agree a lot of westerners might not be able to relate to the cultural diversity of India.
Compared to say Europe over past 50 years internal conflicts have been miniscule.
Sikh conflict you may be referring to are events from 1984 IIRC.