Maldives, India, China: history shapes the present

The Maldives, especially when seen through the eyes of its Indian Ocean neighbours, and past and prospective allies, is a study in contradictions. An archipelago of nearly 1,200 islands, it is a specimen of small states that paradoxically managed to maintain relative independence from European colonisation throughout the colonial period, in contrast to large South Asian territories.…

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