Search for the real villain of Partition divides India again
15 years, 7 months ago

Search for the real villain of Partition divides India again

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A controversial new book by a senior politician from India's Hindu nationalist party suggests that Mr Jinnah, a secular man who drank and smoked but rarely visited the mosque, has too long been demonised by Indian society. Furthermore, it argues that he only raised the prospect of a separate Pakistan with independence leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi as a bargaining tool and that it was the inflexibility of Jawaharlal Nehru, the man who became independent India's first prime minister, that ultimately led to the division of the sub-continent. Mr Singh went on to say that the tragedy of Partition is still evident today in the experience of India's Muslim population of around 160 million. In 2005, the BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani was forced to stand down as party chief after he wrote in the visitors' book at Jinnah's tomb in Karachi that Pakistan's founder was "an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity".

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Partition a historical mistake: Owaisi
1 year, 5 months ago

Partition a historical mistake: Owaisi

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday called the Partition of India “a historical mistake that should not have happened.” Owaisi was responding to a question from a reporter during a press conference on comments made by Samajwadi Party leader S.P. On local political issues, he accused the Congress of keeping “a door open” to join hands with the BJP …

June 15, 1947: When Congress accepted Mountbatten plan that divided India on religious lines
2 years, 9 months ago

June 15, 1947: When Congress accepted Mountbatten plan that divided India on religious lines

Op India  

The partition of India is one of the greatest horrors inflicted on India that haunts every Indian even today. 75 years ago today the ‘nationalist’ Congress party along with MK Gandhi approved the plan of dividing the Bharat into two sovereign entities- India and Pakistan, to maintain its basic ‘secular nationalist’ character. He said, “Friends, in India, there live two …

Jinnah partitioned India once but BJP leaders are dividing country every day: Sanjay Raut
3 years ago

Jinnah partitioned India once but BJP leaders are dividing country every day: Sanjay Raut

India TV News  

Highlights Jinnah had partitioned India only once, but BJP creating a rift between Hindus and Muslims: Raut Sanjay Raut also slammed BJP for terming the Uddhav Thackeray-led party "Janab Sena". Raut said RSS has formed many organisations for Muslims such as Rashtriya Muslim Manch Muhammad Ali Jinnah had partitioned India only once to create Pakistan but BJP leaders are dividing …

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition
3 years, 1 month ago

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition

The Hindu  

P artition, or rather the vivisection of India, as Mahatma Gandhi termed it, is a theme of enduring interest, both to the rapidly diminishing generation that suffered and survived it and to the succeeding generations in the subcontinent. As for the Lahore Resolution, adopted in March 1940 by the Muslim League without mentioning the word “Pakistan”, the author correctly points …

74 Years after Partition, How Jinnah’s Opening Gambit Has Succeeded in Kashmir
3 years, 3 months ago

74 Years after Partition, How Jinnah’s Opening Gambit Has Succeeded in Kashmir

News 18  

When Partition talks were on, Jinnah’s opening position was simple. But 74 years after Partition, it seems Jinnah’s opening gambit has largely succeeded, thanks to India’s ‘intellectual elite’. Curiously, it was the same Sheikh Abdullah who opposed Jinnah’s ‘Muslim majority states must automatically become part of Pakistan’ formula and then invariably gravitated towards the formula due to politics. Some scholars …

How PM Narendra Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Keep 'Akhand Bharat' Alive
3 years, 3 months ago

How PM Narendra Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Keep 'Akhand Bharat' Alive

The Quint  

Bhagwat contended that Indian leaders at the time of Partition did not have the vision, courage or conviction to prevent it. The RSS has long argued that partition could have been averted because MA Jinnah died within a few months and it was hastiness on part of Nehru to acquire power that led to a truncated territory being India. In …

Partition did not happen due to Muslims but due to Jinnah: Owaisi
3 years, 4 months ago

Partition did not happen due to Muslims but due to Jinnah: Owaisi

India TV News  

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said that the Congress party should be blamed for the partition of India in 1947. Owaisi's comments came amid a controversy over Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief OP Rajbhar's statement that had Mohammed Ali Jinnah been made the first Prime Minister of India, there would not have been partition. "The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is responsible …

Akhilesh's ally Om Prakash Rajbhar blames RSS for partition
3 years, 4 months ago

Akhilesh's ally Om Prakash Rajbhar blames RSS for partition

India TV News  

A day after saying that there would have been no partition if Muhammad Ali Jinnah was made the first prime minister of the country, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar blamed the RSS on Thursday for the historic event. Reiterating his stand, Rajbhar said if Jinnah was made the first prime minister of independent India, there would have …

'India Would Not Have Seen Partition Had Jinnah Been Made First PM', SBSP Chief Rajbhar Says
3 years, 4 months ago

'India Would Not Have Seen Partition Had Jinnah Been Made First PM', SBSP Chief Rajbhar Says

News 18  

Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday said there would have been no partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made the first prime minister, adding to the row on a remark by Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav. Rajbhar made the assertion, in the wake of his poll ally Yadav talking of Jinnah in the same breath as …

India wouldn't have seen Partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made first PM: SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar
3 years, 4 months ago

India wouldn't have seen Partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made first PM: SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar

India Today  

Adding to the row on a remark by Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday said there would have been no Partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made the first prime minister. "Had Jinnah been made the first prime minister, the partition of the country would not have …

Book Review: Ishtiaq Ahmed's "Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History" attempts to understand Partition
3 years, 9 months ago

Book Review: Ishtiaq Ahmed's "Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History" attempts to understand Partition

The Hindu  

Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been praised and dispraised for the partition of India. In his book The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx says: “Men make their history, but they do not make it just as they please, they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.” Core …

Why M.A. Jinnah was a man of many contradictions
4 years, 7 months ago

Why M.A. Jinnah was a man of many contradictions

Live Mint  

When Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party to an electoral majority in 2014, Indians could still assert that, however flawed, their republic aimed to remain secular, unlike Pakistan, which had chosen to be a theocracy and acted as one. As the late Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz, mocked India once, “tum bilkul ham jaise nikle, ab tak kahan chhupe the …

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary
5 years, 2 months ago

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary

Firstpost  

A historical united people’s struggle led by patriotic, modern-minded leaders, like Mustafa Kemal of Turkey or the leaders of Japan after the Meiji Restoration, will be required for bringing about a transformation to lift India from the ranks of underdeveloped to developed countries Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s birth anniversary was on 25 December, and on this occasion, many Pakistanis said that …

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition
5 years, 2 months ago

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

Deccan Chronicle  

The current time in India has brought us an accurate reproduction of the days leading up to Partition. 11) Provision should be made in the Constitution giving Muslims an adequate share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of the state and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of efficiency. 12) The Constitution should …

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget
5 years, 7 months ago

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget

Al Jazeera  

More than 70 years ago today, the Indian subcontinent was divided by its British colonial rulers into two nation-states – India and Pakistan. In the schools that I work in Pakistan, students frequently tell me that they celebrate Pakistan’s independence from not the British Empire but “Hindu India” every August. Mourning a breakup in India As Pakistan celebrates the “making …

Dear PM Modi, Take a Trip From Wayanad to Rampur Via Chicago
5 years, 11 months ago

Dear PM Modi, Take a Trip From Wayanad to Rampur Via Chicago

The Quint  

A couple of decades later, “separate electorates” became the unbridgeable chasm between Gandhi and Jinnah that led to the creation of Pakistan. That, in the present circumstances, representation of Mussulman in the different Legislatures of the country and other elected bodies through separate electorates is inevitable and further, the Government being pledged over and over again not to disturb this …

Controversial former VP Ansari says Sardar Patel was as guilty as Jinnah in the conspiracy to partition India
6 years, 4 months ago

Controversial former VP Ansari says Sardar Patel was as guilty as Jinnah in the conspiracy to partition India

Op India  

Controversial former Vice-President Hamid Ansari, while releasing the Urdu and Hindi translations of journalist Saeed Naqvi’s book “Being the Other: The Muslim in India”, at the Dy. Brandishing his Muslim bias, Hamid Ansari speaking at the event said, that Sardar Patel is ‘Just as guilty as Pakistan’s Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the conspiracy to partition India’. Referring to Sardar …

Partition wouldn't have happened if Jinnah had become PM: Dalai Lama
6 years, 7 months ago

Partition wouldn't have happened if Jinnah had become PM: Dalai Lama

Deccan Chronicle  

Panaji: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday said Jawaharlal Nehru had a “self-centred attitude” to become India’s first prime minister even though Mahatma Gandhi was in favour of Muhammad Ali Jinnah taking the top post at that time. Responding to a student’s question on taking right decisions, he said, “I feel democratic systems are very good than the feudal …

Jinnah sympathisers tacitly support two-nation theory under the garb of ‘secularism’, and India can’t have that
6 years, 10 months ago

Jinnah sympathisers tacitly support two-nation theory under the garb of ‘secularism’, and India can’t have that

Op India  

The portraits we put up in our homes, offices and universities tell something about our icons and the ideas that we subscribe to. They are not religions in the strict sense of the word, but are, in fact, different and distinct social orders; and it is a dream that the Hindus and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality; and …

Jawaharlal Nehru-led Congress, not Muhammad Ali Jinnah was responsible for Partition: Farooq Abdullah
7 years ago

Jawaharlal Nehru-led Congress, not Muhammad Ali Jinnah was responsible for Partition: Farooq Abdullah

Firstpost  

National Conference chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah blamed Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad for the Partition of India and not Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan In a statement which may once again open the contentious debate over the Partition of India, National Conference chief and former Jammu and Kashmir …

Jinnah didn’t want to create Pakistan, says Farooq Abdullah, stirs up controversy
7 years ago

Jinnah didn’t want to create Pakistan, says Farooq Abdullah, stirs up controversy

Op India  

Nehru, Sardar Patel and Maulana Azad are responsible for the partition of India and not Jinnah ‘Sahab’, said Farooq Abdullah, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Jinnah ne maana magar Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad aur Sardar Patel ne nahi maana. Aaj na Bangladesh hota, na Pakistan hota, ek Bharat hota: Farooq Abdullah in Jammu pic.twitter.com/aIURqKUk6I — ANI March 3, …

‘Partition: 1947’ Parts With the Human Plight of Independence
7 years, 7 months ago

‘Partition: 1947’ Parts With the Human Plight of Independence

The Quint  

Lord Mountbatten was brought in to oversee the change of power, which was going to be a messy and tragic affair. The film, dubbed in Hindi and re-christened Partition: 1947, closely follows the workings of the last Viceroy to India and the events leading up to 15 August 1947. Incidentally, the English title, The Viceroy’s House, is more apt for …

70 Years Later, India And Pakistan Still Feel Impact Of Partition
7 years, 7 months ago

70 Years Later, India And Pakistan Still Feel Impact Of Partition

NPR  

70 Years Later, India And Pakistan Still Feel Impact Of Partition Seventy years after the partition of India and Pakistan, both countries are still shaped by the turmoil of that time. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Seventy years ago this week, Britain granted independence to the Indian subcontinent which was partitioned into two countries - Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Well, NPR's …

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today
7 years, 7 months ago

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “Partition” – the division of …

India at 70: Horror of Partition sealed Nehru’s drive for a secular democracy after Independence
7 years, 7 months ago

India at 70: Horror of Partition sealed Nehru’s drive for a secular democracy after Independence

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Spectacles: Jawaharal Nehru and Gandhi …

India and Pakistan's 70 years of Independence: A look back at how destiny set the midnight’s children apart
7 years, 7 months ago

India and Pakistan's 70 years of Independence: A look back at how destiny set the midnight’s children apart

Firstpost  

Nehru and Jinnah would not have had the slightest of idea on how the destinies of India and Pakistan would pan out in the next seven decades. While Nehru’s “Tryst with Destiny” speech set the tone for India’s future role as a responsible voice of the third world, Jinnah’s “secular State” speech sought to position Pakistan as a country where …

Partition 70 years on: The violence that created Pakistan and India
7 years, 7 months ago

Partition 70 years on: The violence that created Pakistan and India

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Speaking to Associated Press, Krishen Khanna, who was 21 …

Looking backwards and forwards from Partition
9 years, 6 months ago

Looking backwards and forwards from Partition

Hindustan Times  

My last column, arguing that an undivided India might have become Lebanon writ large, attracted a fair amount of comment, both complimentary and critical. Writers with slightly longer memories might date the breach to 1940, when the Muslim League passed their so-called Pakistan Resolution. In his presidential address, Iqbal argued that ‘the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim state …

Jinnah’s Tuberculosis: Could His Secret Have Stopped Partition?
9 years, 7 months ago

Jinnah’s Tuberculosis: Could His Secret Have Stopped Partition?

The Quint  

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, in their book Freedom at Midnight, argue that the Partition of India could have been avoided if “the most closely guarded secret in India” had become known – Jinnah was suffering from tuberculosis which was slowly but surely killing him. Here’s an excerpt from the book: “If Jinnah had been just an unfortunate victim of …

Partition: A fallout of 1942?
9 years, 7 months ago

Partition: A fallout of 1942?

Deccan Chronicle  

There has been a spate of books in recent weeks on Partition and the birth of Pakistan. Did Nehru and Patel, and perhaps Mahatma Gandhi too, give in because they were too tired after a long struggle for freedom and saw a smaller but more organically united India as more workable than the sum of many parts held together by …

Pakistan: A once dangerous idea
10 years ago

Pakistan: A once dangerous idea

Live Mint  

Buried in the archives of the British Library in London, historian Venkat Dhulipala discovered an amazing document that dates to 13 March, 1955. If one can single out one reason for Pakistan’s failure then it is Jinnah’s inability to see that religion and region could never be squared even if Islam is probably a wonderfully homogenous faith. In comparison to …

What Pak's crisis tells all Indians: Partition was an excellent idea
10 years, 6 months ago

What Pak's crisis tells all Indians: Partition was an excellent idea

Firstpost  

Contrary to what peace-wallahs think, it is not India’s job to rescue Pakistan from theocratic mess or any other crisis they pass through. In fact, we would have been in every kind of sectarian strife if we had had a united India in 1947 If one were to look at what’s happening across our western borders – where an elected …

Parivar & Partition
10 years, 7 months ago

Parivar & Partition

The Hindu  

“THE ease with which a larger number of Congressmen and women—small, big and bigger still—have walked into the RSS-BJP boat and sailed with it is not a matter of surprise. “On 11-16 December 1938, the CWC declared the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League as communal organisations and debarred elected members of Congress committees from serving on similar committees in …

The quest for peace in South Asia
11 years, 5 months ago

The quest for peace in South Asia

Live Mint  

As a Pakistani I would have liked to see Asia Society’s recent gathering of young Indian and Pakistani leaders in Islamabad meet under happier circumstances. But for all the history of animosity and violence between our nations, this small gathering proved that our children might be able to meet in those better circumstances if we realize how much our two …

Was partition worth it?
14 years, 6 months ago

Was partition worth it?

Al Jazeera  

As India and Pakistan celebrate independence, we revisit the partition of the subcontinent. While India’s economy has grown exponentially, it is still struggling with grinding poverty, a slew of internal separatist movements and a growing leftist insurgency. Both nations have also fought three wars – two of them over the disputed region of Kashmir – and are perennially hovering on …

Divided minds
16 years, 9 months ago

Divided minds

The Hindu  

Partition has led to sectarian strife in Pakistan; in India it fuels the Sangh Parivars hate industry. Its evil consequences are still being felt: in Pakistan, where it led to sectarian strife and in India, w here it fuels the hate industry that the Sangh Parivar set up decades before Partition. If Partition is a tragedy of monumental proportions, the …

Jinnah and Partition
19 years, 6 months ago

Jinnah and Partition

The Hindu  

The Century has given birth to a great epoch; but the great moment finds a petty generation. He wrote: "A bad gambler's throw has produced this situation.. Gandhiji expected that a compromise would follow the adoption of the Quit India resolution" - the Brits would capitulate in the face of certain defeat. The Mission as well as Jinnah had rejected …

Jinnah in India's history
19 years, 7 months ago

Jinnah in India's history

The Hindu  

The story of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, canonised in Pakistan and demonised in India, has a contemporary relevance. Jinnah's close friend Kanji Dwarkadas was made a "Parsi" and Sir Abdullah Haroon "a princely ruler" of Khairpur state. Even after he had become the Quaid-e-Azam and advocate of Pakistan, Jinnah praised Gopal Krishna Gokhale's liberal and broad-minded statesmanship in his presidential address …

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