>The Hindus and Moslems may have very well killed each other by the 19th century if the Brits hadn't showed up in the first place. ( remember the whole Moghul thing and the Balkan-like fragmentation of the Indian principalities

Take that back, sir, unless you can count which great forces have caused that. Take any clash in the Balkans, and I should be able to dig out who was involved.

The example at hand looks to me more Greek-polis-like.