do you think india-pakistan partition was a good idea????

Question

if i get to change one thing in history it will be our partition...we two needed n still need each other...we are all same...we think alike...atleast the common man on both side does...

i wish atleast now,both sides make peace with each other...

make peace...not war...

what do you think???

Answer 1

well whatever happened has happened...thers no point thinking about that...but we need to look at the future now...that how the two countries can live peacefully with each other...

Answer 2

60 years on the new generation seems to have forgotten the core issue faced by the two major communities - Hindus and Muslims - of the British India. Partition was the only solution back then. If you have any interest in UNBIASED history then you should see the events that led to the partition. The British were increasingly favoring the Hindus and this created a sense of insecurity and concerns about the fate of Muslims in a post-British India. The British were sure to go - they had already shown signs and later on made clear statements about this. But leaving India, they would be leaving Hindus in a stronger position. There were Hindus in most of the top-ranking positions offered to the civilians and Hindus would have been the ones to get the major share in power of post-British era. The partition only created a land where Muslims could live without any such fear.

But yes, we can now work on creating a zone like the EU where cross-border trade thrives, visa-free entry to all member countries is provided and borders are rendered into meaningless fences pitched to differentiate between two friendly neighbours.

Answer 3

It was never and can never be a good idea. Heowever it became in a way inexorable. Firmly determined to get out of India but faced with the never-ending differences between Indian leaders the British government issued an ultimatum that should the leaders not agree on one plan, they will start relinqishing power province by province. The first province they would get out was Madras presidecy. This jolted the Indian leaders from the reverie they were in and they agreed on Partition.The only altert native was that India would have been partitions many times over among the provinces.There is a flame albeit flickering that some eay in the future India and Pakistan(and Bangla Desh) may come together on some distant date but had the provinces become indepenent soverign states then they would never have come back again and India would have been another balkanised state.

Answer 4

Reman bhai, all my life I am a firm believer that any partition of a country is bad. It is specially bad when it happens based on religion and beliefs. So it is the biggest mistake may be next to the Israel and Palestenian conflict. I do not think it has helped anyone other than the military and politicians, who wants more power. If one looks at the current state of many common Pakistanis and compare them to Indians, it is very sad state they are in. Indians have done well over the last 20 years, but Pak as i understand are going in the opposite direction. Actually it is getting worse than it was during the partition from an economic perspective, but have reduced the killings. Even today it has gotten so bad, any attempt of terror acts are looked upon by Indians with all fingers pointing at Pak govt and ISI. I wish and pray we will be united one day, even that is not possible live in peace and harmony.

Answer 5

well u got to really ask one of them they certainly cant be the same nation there is to much hostility between the groups for them to come together right know this is a struggle that goes back to Muslims from Persia and whatnot coming into contact with some of the tantric kingdoms in the north of India the darmic figures of people mid coitus offend the Muslims and they tried to take care of it the old ottoman way burn um to the ground lol, but this struggle is a couple of millennial old u could possible bring it back to the Persian dynasty's and present a decent argument then u ad some British a tea company and a couple thousand years of humans doing What we do best (killing each other) at the time making to separate "stable" i use the term lightly states seemed more advantages then one unstable one and the years of war kinda picked up there I'm all for peace but sometimes u have to fight issues out or it'll boil on the surface and become something much worse

Answer 6

The partition between India/ Pak was to separate Muslims and Hindus so we dont really think alike considering they are completely dofferent religions with conflicting beliefs so right now desh rox (as in BANGLAdesh)

ps guess where im from?

Answer 7

partition of sub-continent was the biggest blunder of history,religion was exploited for this reason and british agent Muhammad ali jinnah whose religion is controvertial till date played great role, and poor allama iqbal also dragged in this blunder, even though he never dreamed about separate for muslims of sub-continent, in his 15 thousand poems he never mentioned pakistan or separate home land, and his own letters proves this fact, 2 nation theory, which is the worthless theory of all times being used but then after 24 years separation of east pakistan took place clearly showed reality of this baseless theory..

Answer 8

hey there, im muslim. my grandfather got shot in the leg when the rioting that caused the split was going on. he fought for his country and recently passed away. my other grandfather chills w/ his indian friends now. this question gives me a lot to think about. we middle eastern people get over these things hecka easily. one day my brother poured some punch on my white shirt and like 10 mins later we were cool again. time settles a lot of things and it has been about 50 years since the split. but remember, they split in the first place for a reason.

Answer 9

No.. It was British treachery!

To any of you who say it was to separate the Hindus and Muslims... well, India has the 3rd largest population of Muslims (after Indonesia & Pakistan)... so how come all of them did not move or leave for Pakistan? In comparison, there are very few Hindus in Pakistan.

Answer 10

But maybe there is peace now, because of the partition, and if they combined again...that could cause conflict.