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If anyone gains from the sorry split, it will be India, which would face a greatly weakened adversary. Mujib has indicated that he would like to establish friendly relations with New Delhi and, particularly, with the Hindu Bengalis just across the border. He does not share West Pakistan's hostility toward India over the disputed territory of Kashmir. West Pakistan, left with a smaller economic base and without the east's foreign-exchange earnings, could not easily maintain as strong an army as the one that went to war with India in 1965. But thoughtful Indians could not regard their neighbors' troubles with too much satisfaction. India itself is by no means immune to the centrifugal forces of tribalism, and many of its people remember all too well Nehru's recurring nightmare: a subcontinent alternating between periods of political unity and bloody interludes of division and strife.