This August will be the 60th anniversary of the independence of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Many young people and their families whose cultural heritage is rooted in the subcontinent (including my own) will be celebrating this great achievement.
However, many will also wonder how a federal India might have fared, if Pakistan and Bangladesh had not been created. Although these discussions usually only involve those who have a detailed knowledge of Indian history, they do interest those who have links with the subcontinent.
Indeed, Education Secretary Alan Johnson earlier this year announced that as part of the citizenship curriculum, history lessons for teenagers will be broadened to account for the impact on modern Britain of immigration, the Commonwealth and the Empire.
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