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India was the cornerstone of the British Empire, but the territory was divided, following independence in 1947, with the secession of what is now Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, leaving Assam as a somewhat isolated enclave in the northeast, which itself has several active separatist movements.
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). India. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_19
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