Steven I. Wilkinson
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“B. R. Ambedkar in his 1941 book Thoughts on Pakistan had urged that Indian nationalists should not object to the idea of Pakistan, because India would, he argued, be much better off with a “safe army” in which Punjabis were no longer so dominant (Ambedkar 1941, 93).”
― Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence
― Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence
“One recent statistical study of all African states after independence, for instance, finds that there were much higher numbers of coup attempts in those countries where there was a “mismatch” between the proportion of the ethnic group in the army and that in control of politics.”
― Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence
― Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence
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