PARTITION OF INDIA BY BRITISHERS WAS IT GOOD OR bad?

Question

britishers rules this country and before it left partitoned it on religion calling it india and pakistan.

Answer 1

The Brits were first and fore most merchants and dividing up the Indian sub-continent was indeed a good idea to them. It A)kept the Indians divided, B) made easier administrative control, C) Created a buffer state in Pakistan that kept Afghanistan landlocked forever (remember the Afghans routed Britain a few times), and D) gave reason to divide and further subjugate the Pakistan portion if the little ones got out of hand. The history of the British empire overseas is a history of economics. Pure and simple.

Answer 2

India was not a unified country when Britishers colonized it. But the independence movement brought in the unity . But Britishers being what they were, did not like the idea of a single large country with Afghanistan bordering it . It suited them to Divide it.

Look at the way India had developed over the last 50 years . It is slowly becoming a super power . Imagin an united India and Pakistan . The amount of money , that both India and Pakistan , allocate for Defense each year in their Budgets is staggering . If only both would unite , the at least one country's Defense Budget would be saved . And the energy of the politicians in both of the countries would be directed towards productive matters and not on bickering with each other . May be the day will come in future...

Ideally the world should unite.... and We should all live in a Utopia . After all - the European countries have got together under a Euro Zone ..

Answer 3

It was probably inevitable in view of the religious intolerance amongst different factions in the local population. Even after the British had been long gone, Pakistan squabbled and Bangladesh split off. Don't forget that before the Raj, the Indian sub-Continent was effectively an area of separate and independent states. It was, on balance, a good thing, as it minimised (but didn't completely end) religious fighting and killing. Try and imagine the Indian sub-continent now as one country with a Muslim minority feeling ill done-to.

Hotwad's response seems totally out of touch. Partition was nothing to do with the Empire, making administration easier - it didn't happen until Great Britain granted independance and thus ceased to have any responsibility for such administration

Answer 4

Somewhat its an un-doubtfully a sadfull partition. But another sadfull thing is the partitioning of India was not by British but with request of India's own at the time Leaders (Jinnah - Pakistan).

Answer 5

no one gives a fu*k about what the british do or say their power is long gone they wouldnt even be able to take down iraq without americas help any how the british did do some partition between the bengals but had some influence in the pak indo partition

Answer 6

The question is, was it inevitable?
A bit like Yugoslavia??
An old India hand told me, 'The Wrong man was in charge' - Mountbatten.
If both the left and the establishment are behind you in Britain, it's hard for any dissenting voice to get heard.