India's Partition in 1947

This article seeks to shed light on the role a particular historical event can play in conferring legitimacy to the politics of communal and national animosities and hostilities. The Partition of India in 1947 was, on the one hand, a gory consummation of a long process of mutual demonising and dehumanising by Hindu and Muslim extremists. On the other, in the post-independence era, it became a model of violent con ict resolution invoked and emulated by ethnic and religious extremists and the hawkish establishments of India and Pakistan.

A Woke-Leftist journal on the internet, thewire.in, has taken up the task of promoting attempts to revise the history of the Partition of India in 1947. According to this article, and the books it espouses, it was originally the tendency of Hindus to consider their religion "superior", and to treat the Muslims as invaders, which sowed the seeds of Partition.

Indian Partition - A Tragedy for all, 2023

I realize that the title and the theme of my first series of deliberations will raise many eyebrows, and I may even receive scorn from people, both who know me, as well as from total strangers. I am daring to talk on a sensitive subject, that is a concern of life and death for 42 million Muslims of the sub-Continent. This excludes the 16 million in Bangladesh, who were lucky to chart their own path, and went on their own independent way. Muslims in India, and Pakistan are not that lucky. Both find themselves in different kinds of quandaries and blind alleys, with no immediate ray of hope. The problem is of immense, immediate, and dangerous consequences to both groups of Muslims. This is a non-emotional take on the Topic, hoping to start a scholarly debate based on ground realities.

2009

The British divided and quit India in 1947. The Partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volumeby two highly regarded scholars in this fieldtells the story of Partition through the events that led up to it and the terrors that accompanied it, to migration and resettlement. In a new shift in the understanding of this seminal moment, the book also explores the legacies of Partition which continue to resonate today in the fractured lives of individuals and communities, and more broadly in the relationship between India and Pakistan and the ongoing conflict over contested sites such as Jammu and Kashmir. In conclusion, the book reflects on the general implications of partition as a political solution to ethnic and religious conflict. The book, which is accompanied by photographs, maps and a chronology of major events, is intended for students as a portal into the history and politics of the Asian region.

rd 1947 the Mountbatten Plan formed East and West Pakistan from the Muslim majority areas in India. From a superficial perspective one could say the British were the main reason for the partition as, being under British colonial rule, it was the authority of Mountbatten which bore the physical division of India. The call for a separate Muslim state can also be seen as resulting from the political tactics of the British in exploiting the chasm between Muslims and Hindus to ensure a future influence in India to plunder its resources. However, Hindu and Muslim motivations are also responsible for the partition as nationalism developed into communalism with Hindus' calling for 'Hindustan' whilst Muslims petitioned Congress for equal political status, encouraged by Jinnah.

The partition of India led to slaughter, rape, and countless atrocities in the region; it further resulted in the Kashmir issue and bitter rivalry between a nuclear Pakistan and India. The tragic episode provides a lesson for the world to learn from. to Allama Mashriqi's selfless ideology and vision of a united India, we could undo the devastating effects of partition. The Kashmir issue would be resolved, the potential for nuclear war between the two neighboring countries would disappear, and the threat of terrorism could be eradicated jointly. Unification would thus finally bring much-needed political, social, and economic stability to the South Asian region, and have far-reaching benefits for the world at large.

CAESURAE: POETICS OF CULTURAL TRANSLATION 2.1, 2017

An academic review of Yasmin Khan's "The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan" (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2007).

Politeja, 2019

South Asia’s political and socio-economic landscape has been greatly transformed in the seven decades since India and Pakistan achieved their independence. Nonetheless, many features are only explicable with reference to the legacies of the 1947 Partition. This essay traces these legacies with respect to ethnic and religious nationalism, state construction and the contrasting trajectories with respect to democratic consolidation. It argues that while the recent scholarship has acknowledged the enduring presence of the Partition on the lives of refugees and their descendants, accounts of its ongoing impact on statecraft are less developed. It is only when such legacies are analyzed that a fuller understanding is possible both of domestic developments and of the enduring rivalry between the two states.