WHO PARTITIONED INDIA - JINNAH OR NEHRU ?

It's important to remember that, at that time

, there was no widely accepted definition of India, a map that was then torn up by a trunculent Jinnah, an impetuous Nehru or whoever dunnit'. There was instead much debate over what future India might look like-a confederation, groupings of provinces, an Indian Union, a mix of princely and other states, a dominion or a republic. To accept that India was a united entity under imperial rule is to accept a central myth of British colonialism. In fact for Indians in the 40's, geography was by no means seen as given, but as something to be shaped by human decision. Parallel efforts to shape the map were underway across the world, as minorities struggled for recognition and protection( eg. The Jews and Arabs of Palestine). Here there was great bloodshed and the borders were arbritarily drawn by colonial powers without taking the people into consideration. Seen thus the Indian predicament far from being unique was part of a global one. The human mind is accustomed to assigning blame and responsibility, and it is difficult to accept that something like the Partition, which produced such momentous consequences, might, in fact, have been only weakly intended. We wish to find monsters at the origin of terrible events . Yet part of what makes such events so terrible is less that they arose from malign individual motives, but that they happened despite the intentions of the leading actors.

WHO PARTITIONED INDIA - JINNAH OR NEHRU ?

By: Anirban Sen

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