Image source- Lord Mountbatten (British Heritage Travel), India-Pakistan partition map (Business Insider India), Jawaharlal Nehru (OneIndia)

The partition of India is one of the greatest horrors inflicted on India that haunts every Indian even today. Back in 1947, at least a million Hindus were killed during the mass migration after partition and millions had to give away their assets, and later millions of Hindus suffered the pain of loss of their dear ones at the hands of Islamists.

So what led to the partition and the horrors that came with it.

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. What we know today is that the then-political leaders believed that partition was necessary, but what we don’t know is that one belief that led to the so-called political separation of Bharat.

Many people to date believe that India was divided due to political differences. But the fact remains though ignored by so-called ‘liberals’ that it was Islamist religious fear and the ‘secular’ character of the Congress party that led to the partition of undivided India into two countries. Islamists’ sham religious fears were pat touched by the Congress which believed (believes) in the code of ‘secularism’! In most countries, secularism means the non-recognition of every religion, but in India, sadly it meant the recognition and pampering one one particular religion.

Islamists called for separate nation since the 19th century

Partition was inevitable as believed by the then leaders, but understanding what led to the decision is important. The Pakistan Movement was started by those who were educated at Aligarh Muslim University and they sought another country to ‘protect’ the identity of Islam. The Congress and its associates to date, fail to believe that the two-nation theory was first promulgated by Syed Ahmad Khan, the founder of the Aligarh Muslim University, and not Veer Savarkar.

In 1876, Khan had said that Hindus and Muslims could never become one nation as their religion and way of life were quite distinct. Seven years later, he voiced similar sentiments. He said, “Friends, in India, there live two prominent nations which are distinguished by the names of Hindus and Mussalmans…To be a Hindu or a Muslim is a matter of internal faith that has nothing to do with mutual relationships and external conditions…Hence, leave God’s share to God and concern yourself with the share that is yours…India is the home of both of us…By living so long in India, the blood of both has changed.”