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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (18006)	5/8/2006 12:55:10 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542970

No Have you read much about what happened in India before partition? I won't go in to the gruesome ways people were killed, mutilated, and tortured: Come back in time with me to 1947: Lord Mountbatten, the appointed viceroy of the British government, faces a difficult situation. Muslims, uncertain about a Hindu-dominated India without British control, support the Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Congress Party, with Jawaharlal Nehru as leader, speaks for the Hindus. Riots and violence erupt everywhere, mostly in the westernmost and easternmost ends of the country where the largest populations of Muslims live. Lord Mountbatten announces that Independence will happen on August 14, 1947, many months before the original target date of June 1948. However, the British government does not address the serious interfaith conflict. Instead, they draw arbitrary lines across the states of Punjab and Bengal. Mahatma Gandhi, father of the Independence movement, takes no part in the decision for Partition, saying, "I am committed to non-violence. I am against civil war, I am against fratricidal war, I am against Hindu-Muslim riots." Gandhi believes in a united, independent India, but his views are dismissed by Jinnah's demands for an "India divided, or India destroyed." In the days right before August 14, 1947, the artificial borderlines are announced. A huge exile, the biggest human population exchange in history, begins with over 10 million people changing sides and at least 250,000 people killed because they're on the "wrong side" at the wrong time.