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===India===
===India===
When the British first discovered [[India]], they encountered the Islamic practice of widow-burning. Horrified, the British colonial authorities made efforts to ban the practice. When the Indians complained that Britain was violating an important cultural tradition, Charles James Napier famously responded, {{cquote|Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.{{cn}}}}
When the British first discovered [[India]], they encountered the Islamic practice of widow-burning. Horrified, the British colonial authorities made efforts to ban the practice. When the Indians complained that Britain was violating an important cultural tradition, Charles James Napier famously responded, {{cquote|Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2015/11/02/napier-doctrine/</ref>
Even after India gained independence from Britain, it continued to be an overtly Western nation which preserved Western values, which was encouraged by Mohandas K. Gandhi. However, after India was partitioned, its Muslim eastern neighbor was, and continues to be, quite the opposite. Thanks to conservative Indian President [[Narendra Modi]], India remains Western to this day.
Even after India gained independence from Britain, it continued to be an overtly Western nation which preserved Western values, which was encouraged by Mohandas K. Gandhi. However, after India was partitioned, its Muslim eastern neighbor was, and continues to be, quite the opposite. Thanks to conservative Indian President [[Narendra Modi]], India remains Western to this day.