No Seriously im glad it showed this awful event that to British did no different from the US with Segregation and why i am now learning about this via A TV Show oh yeah the Awful Education System here in America praises Murderers and makes the Actual Good Guys Bad
shareI also liked learning about that.. I had no knowledge of The Partition at all before this show..
shareI knew it because of BBC TV series "Yes, minister", which talked about it in one of the episodes, about partition was the right way to give colonies independence, so they would fight among themselves. The British seemed to be very good at this, I remember also watched a youtube video about the British controlled Indian subcontinent with a very small military force, mainly through creating divisions among the subjects.
shareThe whole Partition is very complex and nuanced and there's things everyone did which can be viewed as right or wrong. The Indians, Pakistanis, British etc. all did things here which can be taken as right or wrong.
The Indians wanted the British gone. The Muslims wanted their own country (Pakistan, basically using parts of India which had Muslim majority; and we're talking about millions of people here). The British had to leave quick.
They drew a border ratified by Indians and Pakistanis which created India, Pakistan and left some territories' fates up in the air such as Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad area and few more. The Indians and Pakistanis wanted them gone asap.
The British created the map in a hurry. Imagine had the partition NOT happened - it would mean a situation like Iraq or Syria or Sudan or other places like Israel/Palestine - basically non stop civil war for 75+ years - someone would become Prime Minister of the united India with the Muslims and Hindus and others fighting non-stop for their own nation. It would have been a disaster. So the British creating India and Pakistan border was the correct thing. But given Indians and Pakistanis didn't want the British there, it was done in a hurry and lead to some issues. So British, Indians and Pakistanis are all responsible for the mess.
Then the bloodshed during the partition. I'm not fully sure why the people had to move across the border. There are Hindus in Pakistan (albeit very few today) and Muslims in India (probably 12% or so of the 1.5 bn people which is like 180mn Muslims). Then people moved across and fought each other and killed each other. I'm not sure the British wanted this or caused this. It was all the pent up religious animosity and anger.
Even within Pakistan there was turmoil, despite West Pakistan and East Pakistan being all Muslims - from the divided Punjab in the West and divided Bengal in the East. And it eventually led to Bangladesh being formed in 1971 post war with India.
Here's a short video from History Matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AsvcUn3XQc
Doctor Who had an episode during that period, I didn't think it was realistic. Read about it on Wikipedia but that was years ago.