Civil war example sentences

Had Hindi been imposed on South India, in the way that Urdu was imposed on East Pakistan or Sinhala on northern Sri Lanka, India too might have seen civil war and fragmentation.During the civil war, the Bolsheviks kept industries and banks nationalised.For several decades now, a civil war has raged in Sri Lanka, whose roots lie in the imposition of the Sinhala language on the Tamil-speaking minority.When the American Civil War broke out and cotton supplies from the US were cut off, Britain turned to India.Some ten years before this, the American Civil War had been fought, leading to the end of slavery in America.As these troops and the Bolsheviks fought a civil war, looting, banditry and famine became common.