The Partition of Punjab: A Pakistani Perspective

dogra · #10 (**permalink**) 26-Oct-2011, 00:33 AM

Detailed acount of partition:
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/T..._DIRECT_ACTION
http://www.allaboutsikhs.com/books-g...he-punjab-1947

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The comments of the British Press, seldom pro-Congress in its views and very consistent in voicing a pro-League bias, were on this occasion revealing, as they found in this Direct Action threat of the Muslim League nothing less than the design to plung the country into a Civil War: Said the ‘News Chronicle’ of the 30th July, 1946, a day after the passage of the Direct Action Resolution:

“What precisely does Mr. Jinnah think he will achieve by embracing violence-and at a moment when so substantial a part of his claims has been conceded?

“Does he think that communal strife will benefit India or even the Muslim part of India? He has only to look at other parts of Asia to see what lies at the end of that tunnel.

“Does he want his country to become another China, ravaged and utterly impoverished by interminable Civil War?

“It is hopeless, of course, if Mr. Jinnah is wedded to complete intransigeance-if, as now seems the case he really is thirsting for a holy war.

“If Mr. Jinnah nosy resorts to violence, it will be very difficult to save India from disaster.”

In the above extract occur the prophetic words ‘Civil War’ and ‘holy War’, and the Muslim League attitude plunged the country soon after into both these.

dogra · #11 (**permalink**) 26-Oct-2011, 00:37 AM

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Mr. Jinnah in a statement issued from Bombay on September 11, 1946 offered to the Hindus the choice between creating Pakistan and forcing a Civil War in the country.
Replying to a question seeking suggestions for the restoration of peace in India, he said:�
�In view of the horrible slaughter in various parts of India, I am of the opinion that the authorities, both Central and Provincial, should take up immediately the question of exchange of population to avoid brutal recurrence of that which had taken place where small minorities have been butchered by the overwhelming majorities.�
Thus, scouting any suggestion that there could be peace and amity in the country, he advocated exchange of population-the uprooting of millions-and as it later turned out to be, of over twelve millions, and the butchering of about a million. This was the direction in which the Muslim League was inevitably leading the country.
What shocked the conscience of India even more than Calcutta, was the large-scale murder, loot, arson, rape, abduction and forced marriage of Hindu women in the Noakhali District of Eastern Bengal. This time the trouble came about in the October of 1946. It appears the League enthusiasts were on the look-out for an area of operation where they could be sure of very little resistance and where they could demonstrate to the Hindus in action as to what was in store for them in case they did not accept the Muslim League demand of Pakistan. In Calcutta the Hindus-although on the first two days they were completely surprised, and reeled under the sudden blow, and lost more than a thousand in killed-yet on the subsequent days they rallied and gave the Muslims as good as they got. The Muslim League perhaps realized the folly of having tried out Calcutta. A better spot should be selected, and this time it was Noakhali and the adjoining area of Eastern Bengal.

Leading to the abject surrender by the apostles of pacifsim to fascist violence of the muslim league.
But there were other leaders of muslim faith against partition:

dogra · #12 (**permalink**) 26-Oct-2011, 00:38 AM

http://www.sasnet.lu.se/news-sources...-shamsul-islam

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While decrying the concept of a theocratic state itself he said that ”it was based on a false understanding that India is inhabited by two nations, Hindu and Muslim. It is much more to the point to say that all Indian Mussalmans are proud to be Indian Nationals and they are equally proud that their spiritual level and creedal realm is Islam. As Indian nationals-Muslims and Hindus and others, inhabit the land and share every inch of the motherland and all its material and cultural treasures alike according to the measure of their just and fair rights and requirements as the proud sons of the soil…It is a vicious fallacy for Hindus, Muslims and other inhabitants of India to arrogate to themselves and exclusively proprietary rights over either the whole or any particular part of India. The country as an indivisible whole and as one federated and composite unit belongs to all the inhabitants of the country alike, and is as much the inalienable and imprescriptible heritage of the Indian Muslims as of other Indians. No segregated or isolated regions, but the whole of India is the Homeland of all the Indian Muslims and no Hindu or Muslim or any other has the right to deprive them of one inch of this Homeland.”

As well as Bacha Khan of NWFP province:

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Gyani Jarnail Singh · #13 (**permalink**) 26-Oct-2011, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by kds1980

Gyani ji

Hindu's were also too many in east Bengal about 33% before partition but now only 8.5-10% remain.Apart from East Punjab and Delhi there was no mass migration to Pakistan from India.Just read about East Bengali refugees from 1948-56 there were more 1 -2 million Hindu refugees from East Pakistan ,but there was no retaliation and muslims from West bengal did not leave India.these refugees were not even paid adequate compensation as Bengal or Indian government did not have money to pay them .
If India really wanted they could had drive much more muslims from UP,Bihar ,Bengal from 48 to 50s but Congress choose to keep them as their votebank

Kds Ji..
You may be right..Jinnah/ Mulsim League had no wish for "vote banks"...unlike Nehru and his gang. Sohrawardee actually began his Massacres of HINDUS/SIKHS in Bengal as Direct Action DAY to start the Pakistan Campaign...the bloodshed began in Bengal..IMHO the British too wanted to PUNISH only Bengal and PUNJAB as ONLY these two states were in the forefront fo the Independence Movement....SIKHS in Punjab and Bose form Bengal...Anyway India took its REVENGE in 1971 !!

kds1980 · #14 (**permalink**) 26-Oct-2011, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Gyani Jarnail Singh

Kds Ji..
You may be right..Jinnah/ Mulsim League had no wish for "vote banks"...unlike Nehru and his gang. Sohrawardee actually began his Massacres of HINDUS/SIKHS in Bengal as Direct Action DAY to start the Pakistan Campaign...the bloodshed began in Bengal..IMHO the British too wanted to PUNISH only Bengal and PUNJAB as ONLY these two states were in the forefront fo the Independence Movement....SIKHS in Punjab and Bose form Bengal...Anyway India took its REVENGE in 1971 !!

1971 was again a defeat for Hindu's and only Bengali muslims gained from it. bangladesh did not prove to be a friend of India or Kind to Hindu's.What India gained from 1971 war apart from its boosting its fake ego and Indira Gandhi presenting herself image of Durga to common Indians?

Sheikh mujibur even refused to return land of demolished Hiodu Temples to bangladeshi Hindu's.Tactically India should had allowed Punjabi vs Bengali muslim conflict to go on and on it could had drained ruined Pakistan