Partitioning India on religious ground was a nasty idea of colonial British. It was designed to sow the seeds of long term future confrontation on the Indian sub-Continent after they departed. Leaving intact a giant nation would not be in the interest of global political interests. The colonial looters would have been happier creating more fragments but could not find other sectarian leaders outside the Muslim community. For example, Christian missionaries had not converted sizeable number of people into Christianity so they could not create another State for them.
Anyway, birth of Pakistan in the name of Islam was a great victory of a handful Islamic separatists, led by Mohammad Ali Jinnah whose lifestyle was anything but Islamic. Almost instantly, their political ambitions reached stratospheric heights – they just discovered that they can grab anything, in the name of Islam. Kashmir and Balochistan soon became victims of Pakistani greed – again in the name of Islam – people of these regions are still the biggest victims even after over six decades of India’s partition and creation of Islamic Pakistan.
Partition fuelled the communal disharmony, leading to massive blood-bath and mass migration of Hindus and Muslims from both sides. It gave wounds to lakhs of people that would take generations to heal. Wise people rightly say: Religious fanaticism is as deadly as the epidemics of Cholera, Malaria or Ebola. A lot of wise and progressive Muslims consciously chose to stay in India, away from fanaticism of some of their co-religions, and feel satisfied looking at the status of today’s highly radicalized Pakistani society.
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