When India and Pakistan divided and became independent from the United Kingdom in 1947, the northern state of Kashmir immediately became a hotly contested source of conflict for the two fledgling nations.
Fast forward 67 years, and Kashmir is still a sore spot between the two countries — even when it comes to cricket.
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More than 65 students, many of them Muslim, were expelled from their university, according to the Associated Press, and even briefly charged with sedition this week for rooting against India in a big match against Pakistan, The New York TImes reported Friday. The Kashmiri students attend — or used to attend — university in a different Indian state, Uttar Pradesh.
Cricket is massively popular in India. Yet in Kashmir, which is now divided between the two countries, it's apparently not uncommon for Kashmiris to root against the Indian national team because of bitterness over decades of conflict.
The Times reports that police in Uttar Pradesh filed sedition charges against "67 Kashmiri students after some of them cheered for the Pakistani cricket team" while watching Sunday night's match on television.

Indiaís Dinesh Karthik, center, celebrates with a teammate during an international cricket match against Pakistan on March 2, 2014.
Image: A.M. Ahad/Associated Press
The charges were dropped on Thursday after local authorities reviewed the case, the Times reports.
The action against the Kashmiri students, many of whom were reported to be Muslim, comes amid what many feel is a a rising tide of Hindu nationalism in the secular, but deeply fragmented, India.
In just one example, Penguin India recently banned and destroyed existing copies of a book on Hindu history following a long legal battle. The book by a University of Chicago professor was criticized by litigators for hurting "the religious feelings of millions of Hindus by declaring that [religious poem] Ramayana is a fiction."
According to the Times, the Kashmiri cricket-fan students were punished so harshly after pressure from leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a conservative Hindu nationalist group many observers think will dominate India's national elections that begin April 7.