According to Disney, the Muslim-Hindu conflict in India & Pakistan was created by "some old Englishman"
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Actually they were at each other's throats and would and soon launched into a genocidal civil war if it wasn't for the fact that the pakis were given their own country to fuck off to instead. Even then, they managed to do some wars anyway.
There's an argument to be made that, because the British Empire strategy was to make an ethnic minority into the local ruling class, subject to Britain (in order to keep them loyal, they need British support or they get mobbed), it inflamed ethnic tensions.
However, that ignores that the ethnic tensions needed to be there in the first place for the British to exploit.
It's happening again today. The alphabet people are a minority but they are being elevated to ruling class status.