India’s Geographic Challenge

RANE explains India’s primary geographic challenge as maintaining internal cohesion while strengthening ties to the outside world.

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[soumyakanti]

As an Indian, it is interesting to see how Western analysts see our country. What is surprising is the huge gulf that exists in the way Indians understand India and how the West understands India.

[anuragbhattacharjee]

Did he actually say weak central government and strong state government...and that also west bengals government 😅😅😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[abcdxyz]

As far as I know, Nepal was never under the Mughal empire and has always been independent.

[kiranvs]

"Weak central govt"??? Feel funny.... Indian govt is one of the strongest govt in the world. True that India has lots of cultural, linguistic and religious diversity but united by strong political and economical forces. India is the best example for "Unity in diversity". India has more than 1000 spoken languages, 7 major religions, thousands of ethnic and tribal areas. But all are learned to live peacefully under strong secular democratic free enterprise economy of India!

[loveall]

Tripura was never conquered by Mughal. Even it was Independent during British Colonization and was ruled by Tripuri Kings for thousand of years before it joined India in 1949

[kshitijmisra]

On what basis do you say that narendra modi's government is weak. He as a leader and his government are one of the strongest in the history of a democratic India.

[srikanthremani]

India is an economic union and a cultural confederation.

[sparshgangan]

The prime minister is popular everywhere except Punjab, majority states of Dravidian India, Bengal and Odisha.
It also shows at what limit can foreigners be liberalists but again supporting a specific community against a specific community.
It’s there divide and rule policy since the British Raj.

[anupampaul]

Unlike Kashmir, there is no such controversy in Arunachal Pradesh as shown here. However the person gets it right while making a video on China 😊

[ramachandrar]

Every state in India has its own legacy, history and culture... In past every state has its own dynasty ruling and waging war on neighboring states. It was much like European countries. If we compare India with Europe then there would be 28 states... If one rebels the center can supress it with the power from 27 states, due to differences in culture and language or some issues ongoing between, no two neighboring states will make mutual alliance against central weather is weak or not.

[sanjeepsah]

The Mughal emperor never once took the Nepaliis and Nepal into your possession, and if you ever made such a video, before you knew the history of Nepal or otherwise it would not be good for you.

[amitmutrezas]

Dude, you need to research about India or come over here in New Delhi. You know nothing about India or its geopolitico-socio-economy
I urge you to come to India once and OBSERVE.

[rajeshjoshi]

fellow Indians in comment section you are unaware of India's federal structure. He made a good video only that it is bit short. There is constant friction between central and state governments due to even distribution of power. it is called decentralisation of power for sustainable democratic prospects

[tusharsohale]

Update: India is having a very strong Central Government with Narendra Modi as its Prime Minister. Make no mistake about this.

[ravi_ankur]

India had 5 th largest Navy in the world, we can defend our interest in Indian ocean, arabian ocean, bay of Bengal and Persian gulf.

[sukuvar]

weak central government ...are you nuts ?

[jayafire]

India is a nation protected by geography. It is meant to be like this.

[nishhnishh]

The fucking map of India is bigger, he added a 'disputed state' which is not disputed at all.

[shubhamjain]

Hahahahaha... Buddy the national Government is very very powerful. Get info from correct sources

[fares]

The person shown on 1:24 while we hear "waves of GREEK..." is Alexander the Great. Good for you, Stratfor...