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Unimpeded by foreign distractions, the world's largest democracy (first out of two is still first) set about expanding the Hindu realm both eastwards into its former domains in southeast Asia, and also internally within India itself. The Muslims of Kashmir were the first to feel the full extent of this policy, with many fleeing first to Azad Kashmir and then into the Hindu Kush. India's other religious minorities did not fair much better and soon Buddhists, Christians and Jains alike were seeking sanctuary beyond India's ever-expanding borders. While some followed the Kashimiris in setting up their own states, others made it to Sri Lanka, swelling the island's population and fuelling Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte's nascent Sumatran and Javanese colonisation efforts. The situation to the north continued to deteriorate as the view that to be a true Hindu and Indian, one must speak Hindi began to proliferate. Perhaps inevitably, this linguistic nationalism was ill-received in the south and the states of the old northeast, sparking a series of protests that soon increasingly descended into violence and then into a fully fledged insurgency in the Eastern Ghats and Assamese hills. The deteriorating situation in these regions prompted a further wave of emigration, with east Africa and Madagascar being the primary destinations. After a decade of near civil war, and the formation of a more conciliatory-minded government in New Delhi a comprehensive peace agreement was reached whereby many non-Hindi speaking states would be given greater powers with similar powers to be granted to East India, and East and South Africa.

Description
Unimpeded by foreign distractions, the world's largest democracy (first out of two is still first) set about expanding the Hindu realm both eastwards into its former domains in southeast Asia, and also internally within India itself. The Muslims of Kashmir were the first to feel the full extent of this policy, with many fleeing first to Azad Kashmir and then into the Hindu Kush. India's other religious minorities did not fair much better and soon Buddhists, Christians and Jains alike were seeking sanctuary beyond India's ever-expanding borders. While some followed the Kashimiris in setting up their own states, others made it to Sri Lanka, swelling the island's population and fuelling Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte's nascent Sumatran and Javanese colonisation efforts. The situation to the north continued to deteriorate as the view that to be a true Hindu and Indian, one must speak Hindi began to proliferate. Perhaps inevitably, this linguistic nationalism was ill-received in the south and the states of the old northeast, sparking a series of protests that soon increasingly descended into violence and then into a fully fledged insurgency in the Eastern Ghats and Assamese hills. The deteriorating situation in these regions prompted a further wave of emigration, with east Africa and Madagascar being the primary destinations. After a decade of near civil war, and the formation of a more conciliatory-minded government in New Delhi a comprehensive peace agreement was reached whereby many non-Hindi speaking states would be given greater powers with similar powers to be granted to East India, and East and South Africa.