Recently, in a trip to India someone told me that the value of the life of a person there is the cheapest in the world. Trying to make a point.
The partition of India has been crucial to the resurgence of Islam, as Pakistan is the only Muslim nation with nuclear weapons so far. Partition happened for several reasons, one of them the lack of vision and hard-headed policy of Mahatma Gandhi when trying to appease the Muslim League and Mr. Jinna. It never works with the Muslims. Not accepting the Sir Stafford Cripps’ proposal for Dominion Status in 1942 was a big mistake, and even though Nehru was for it at first, Gandhi finally convinced him against it. The only clear head during this process was Sri Aurobindo, exiled in Pondicherry, who sent a personal friend to the Indian Congress to advocate for the Cripps’ proposal, and said that the Hindus must prepare to fight the Muslims if necessary to prevent partition.
Results, ad Ms. Carol Gould points out:
1) Over one million dead, totally the opposite of the “Ahimsa” or non-injury policy of Mahatma Gandhi. Clearly, appeasement and passive resistance works only in very specific circumstances. It did not here.
2) The creation of the mongrel state called Pakistan, and later Bangladesh, and a string of human right violations against Hindus for years and years: murder, mayhem, expulsions, you name it.
Paki come home. Only when the partition of India is reversed, there will a chance of peace in that region (Kashmir is the festering wound now). This will also bring balance is other places within the Muslim world. Reunion is not impossible.
