India is an ambitious country. Although its economic development is extremely unbalanced, its own weapons development is relatively backward, and basically all weapons are imported, they still want to restore the scale of the British colonial East India Company. For example, shortly after independence, Sikkim was occupied by the military.

In the 1990s, East Pakistan and West Pakistan were separated by a series of military and economic means, which led to a great reduction in Pakistan's strength, and now it has no strength to compete with India. Through these events, we can clearly see India's obsession with territory.

In short, India today, like Russia before, shows a strong desire for territory. Through military and political actions, we have achieved certain control over small neighboring countries. Surprisingly, however, it suffered a big loss in Sri Lanka, an island country across the sea from itself.

Relations between Sri Lanka and India

Like India now, Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic country. Although it is just an ordinary island country, its ethnic complexity is no less than that of India now, but its main ethnic group still accounts for more than 70% of the population.

Due to the large number of ethnic groups, in ancient times, Sri Lanka and India seemed to be a relatively unified region, but in fact each ethnic group had its own separatist forces.

Before Britain colonized India, local ethnic conflicts continued. It is precisely because of this historical reason that the performance among Indian provinces is still not United enough? Fortunately, during the British colonial period, Britain carried out unified control and arrangements for all ethnic groups, which eased the contradictions among all ethnic groups and laid a certain foundation for the later establishment of a unified Indian country.

Although the area of Sri Lanka is less than 70,000 square kilometers, it has always been a very suitable place for planting because of abundant rainfall and fertile land. In addition, Sri Lanka is located in the Indian Ocean and is an important transit point for sea passage. Therefore, in the eyes of British colonists, Sri Lanka is as important as India, a huge continent.

At that time, in order to increase its control over Sri Lanka, Britain moved a large number of Tamils from southern India to Sri Lanka, so that Tamils could balance the local Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.

In order to avoid the notice that Sri Lanka and India were unified and separated from Britain, the British authorities also divided Sri Lanka into separate rule, with the British king himself as the king of Sri Lanka.

So Sri Lankans and India have nothing? A family? The cognitive concept of.

Has India ever thought about unifying Sri Lanka?

This idea is definitely there.

India successfully gained its independence from Britain in 1946. At that time, in order to avoid the development of India, Britain adopted the policy of dividing India and split the East India Company into a Pakistan to contain India.

However, India has always wanted to restore the huge ruling area of the East India Company, so it began to use some military and political means to continuously oppress neighboring small countries and force them to yield to themselves.

Although the land area of Sri Lanka was not large at that time, because Sri Lanka was not independent when India became independent, India naturally dared not challenge the suzerain to attack Sri Lanka.

1948 When Sri Lanka became independent, India rushed to Sri Lanka and expressed the hope that it could join in building a huge India, but India's proposal was decisively rejected by Sri Lanka.

After being rejected, India was naturally very angry and wanted to control Sri Lanka by force.

However, Sri Lanka is also very smart. After independence, it is very close to western countries by virtue of its unique geographical position, and allows western countries to establish military bases on their own territory.

With the protection of these western tycoons, even if India has ideas about Sri Lanka, it can only secretly make small moves below.

India's follow-up to Sri Lanka

Although Indian officials did not directly attack Sri Lanka, they pinned their hopes on the Tamils who went to Sri Lanka that year, hoping that these Tamils could contain the Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.

After independence, Sri Lanka began to compress the living space of Tamils in order to avoid the split of the country caused by Tamils, hoping to drive them back to India.

These Tamils are also grumpy, and they are forced to set up armed groups against the Sri Lankan government. With the intensification of the struggle between the two sides, India seemed to see the hope of reunifying Sri Lanka in the 1970s, and began to strongly support a Tamil Tiger military organization.

Although there is an absolute difference in the number of Tamils and Sinhalese, with the military and material support of India, Tamils began to win some victories without interruption.

However, after LTTE gained a certain actual control area, their ambitions became bigger and bigger. They refused to join India, but proposed to India that India could divide the living areas of southern Tamils and form a kingdom where Tamils lived.

Such an approach will naturally make the Indian authorities extremely angry.

However, India did not tear its face at that time to avoid being divided up by Tamils. That is, to host the negotiations between Sri Lanka and LTTE. The Sri Lankan authorities are well aware that LTTE would not have existed long ago without India's support.

Therefore, Sri Lanka simply does not accept the peace talks proposed by the Indian authorities.

When LTTE saw the Indian authorities and Sri Lanka approaching, they were also very angry. In addition, India rejected LTTE's proposal to establish a huge Tamil country, so LTTE hated the Indian authorities.

But India was unwilling to pay so much for itself, so in a rage, it sent 65,438+10,000 troops to Sri Lanka. India never imagined that its 654.38 million+army would be jointly attacked by LTTE and Sri Lanka. Because India was too underestimating its enemy and lacked actual combat experience, it was quickly beaten out of the water by the two families and had to be forced to withdraw from Sri Lanka.

Since then, India has never had a chance to get its hands on Sri Lanka. With the increasing tension between India and neighboring countries in recent years, there is no time and energy to deal with Sri Lanka, so India may not have the opportunity to annex Sri Lanka again.