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PARTITION: BLAME IT ON NEHRU!


From Daniel Ovelz Michael

BLAME IT ON NEHRU!

✪ In the photo the All India Congress Committee delegates are seen voting for Partition. 
✪ Nehru, Pant and Prasad are visible.
✪ But all the blame befalls Nehru time and again for the partition.
✪ The AICC could have rejected the partition if Congress was so against Partition.
✪ It was Rajagopalachari and Patel, the first ones to accept partition.
✪ And again Sardar Patel was the one who prevailed over that if the Sub Continent had to be partitioned then Punjab and Bengal too would have to be partitioned. As both the provinces had vast proportions of Hindus districts along with the predominantly muslim majority districts.
✪ Jinnah had expected that the Hindu districts of Punjab and Hindu districts of Bengal would get transferred to Pakistan as parts of one same province.
✪ When Jinnah did not get the desired Pakistan he termed it as Moth eaten Pakistan. He had even demanded that a corridor connecting west Pak and east Pak be created accross India. Which rightly got rejected at the outset by Mountbatten.
✪ Sarat Chandra Bose and Suhrawardy wanted Bengal to remain united and independent with Calcutta as capital.
✪ If united Bengal was approved as independent nation then perhaps even a United Punjab with both Muslim and Hindu areas together would have emerged as Independent nation then perhaps Jinnah would have been left with Sindh and Balochistan as Pakistan.
✪ But the British were determined to create a large Pakistan with two wings - east and west if not in one territorial extent.
✪ The question is did the British wanted to divide India or divide the Muslims?
✪ The Indian Muslims of the Subcontinent were the largest muslim population amongst all muslims of the world.
✪ The British never wanted another monolith Muslim population nation to emerge in the world. 
✪ They demolished the Ottomans and wanted the Arabs to dominate the Muslim world.
✪ The British knew it thoroughly that creation of Pakistan wont be perfect and wholesome!  as many muslims would stay back in Hindu India and would not migrate to Pakistan. 
✪ The British knew it eventually that East Bengal would sooner than later emerge as an Independent Nation. The artificial nation would crumble in time.
✪ Hence the Partition of India would actually be the division of Muslims of the Subcontinent into three divisions i) Muslims of India, ii) Muslims of West Pakistan & iii) Muslims of East Bengal.
✪ The British wanted to control the oil rich Arabs and make the Arabs to emerge as the main force of all Muslims in the world.
✪ Therefore it's important to understand the British design in Partition of the Subcontinent.

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