Leaving aside anything to do with communism or fascism or the World Wars...

Leaving aside anything to do with communism or fascism or the World Wars, was the partition of India the biggest mistake of the 20th century? The creation of Pakistan was completely arbitrary and the implementation/population exchanges killed hundreds of thousands of both Hindus and Muslims. Today the Indian subcontinent is perhaps the most likely flashpoint for a nuclear war that could kill hundreds of millions.

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How is it Arbitrary if it gave the Muslims and Hindus a seperate state?

There would be incredible tension if they lived in one country.

>The creation of Pakistan was completely arbitrary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrani_Empire

It wasn't my dude and i'm sick of people believing the meme history that all these Asian countries have had no historical bases before the new imperialism era.

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religious intolerance and tensions are one of the reasons why the middle east is so unstable

Because Muslims have no historic claim to India, and if the 200 mil Pakis were in India's Billions they would be such a small minority they couldn't make the local news, let alone harbor Osama Bin Laden. You were probably too young to remember 9/11, but let me tell you after the Taliban skipped the border, there was a better option than just randomly deciding to invade Iraq.

>There would be incredible tension if they lived in one country.
Good thing the partition avoided that then!

Islam was the biggest mistake of any century.

It wouldn't have worked desu. We treat our current smaller Muslim population like garbage so if we had all the niggers in Pakistan right now it wouldnt be long before we just start bombing them.

>Because Muslims have no historic claim to India
Wasn't the majority of northern india ruled by muslims for several hundred years?

>Wasn't the majority of northern india ruled by muslims for several hundred years?
Not really. By the time of the 15th century it was barely half of northern india. And that still doesn't excuse why they should have a claim.
We declined rapidly under the Mughals and the Delhi sultanate literally did not do anything apart from try and take over the subcontinent and then decline rapidly within the space of less then half a century.

If you combined the Muslim population of India with that of Pakistan, you'd have just under half a billion "Indian" Muslims.

Nigger the most deadly conflict listed there is the 1971 war, which was caused by a lack of partition of Muslim areas. If India had been kept united (something the Pakistanis heavily lobbied against) it would've meant a Bangladeshi war times 10.

But in the latter scenario, they don't have access to nukes. In fact neither probably does India.

>There would be incredible tension if they lived in one country.
Not true, India has more Muslims than pakisran today and they live peacefully

Im not so sure about that. There were several incidents of Hinfu nationalists/extremists going around and commiting atrocities against every non-Hindu especially Muslims

>Im not so sure about that
You can't honestly deny facts

You know I wonder. Do Indians only hate Muslims or would they hate Christians or Jews aswell if they were there too.

>was the partition of India the biggest mistake of the 20th century
it was absolutely inevitable

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India still has 177 million Muslims, Pakistan has about the same

Don't those muslims live in a- culturally distinc areas and b- in much smaller proportions of the total surrounding population?

>was the partition of India the biggest mistake of the 20th century?
Maybe for you faggot, but not for the non-Hindu Indians who don't want to live under the rule of Hindu-nationalist thugs like Modi.

Yes. The balkanization of India was necessary from a western point of view, but it should've been done along ethnic lines and not religious. I know it sounds silly today but, if Brits could fund the pakistan meme, they could've funded the Tamil meme and the Bengali meme instead.

Literally nothing to do with Pakistan. This is like posting the Austrian Empire to justify Yugoslavia.

t. Sanjay

>India has more Muslims than pakisran today and they live peacefully
Not true at all. Even Israel treats it's Palestinian and Arab population better than India treats it's Muslim and non-Hindu population.

Pakistan has a population of just under 200 million. Of that total figure, 96% are Muslims. India's Muslim population is a total of 172 million if Wikipedia has the demographics down accurately.

Adding 200 million people to a population isn't a joke, and India has over 1 billion, not billionS. They would have almost 400 million people in India of the muslim faith, more people than live in America. I'd say that would make the local news.

There are large historic populations of Christians and Jews in India. Whether they're treated poorly I don't know..

But there's jews and christians, retard

It was the correct thing to do at the time. There is only renewed danger because of the resurgence of Hindu nationalism in India provoked by Modi and the BJP.

We Indians don't realise this but we have magic in our hands . youtu.be/h2j2pSBHAOU Watch this once you'll find the problem we are stuck in the middle neither Capitalism nor communism .

When you watch that video , you'll see the impact of the imperial era

Is Viceroy's House an accurate movie? Critics here called it colonialist apologism, but it was realised by a Punjabi Sikh woman.

It's impossible to get an accurate portrayal of Partition. Every party involved has an interest in playing it down, Muslims, Hindus, Brits, nobody wants the truth out there

>Even Israel treats it's Palestinian and Arab population better than India treats it's Muslim and non-Hindu population
So India sterilizes Muslim women? Close down their mosques? Kick them out of their homes?

Delhi is full of muslims though. And they unironically reproduce more than the hindus in some places

t. scared shitless cowfucker gabeesh

>pakistan invades india multiple times, is a nearly failed state that goes MUH NUKES every time they get caught with their pants down and their army's motto is literally Jihad for Allah.
>It's the yindoos that are the problem.
go away christine fair.

>lack of partition
wew lad.
It was an ethnic conflict because pakis really need someone to lord over and they chose bengalis.
Then they got their shit stomped so badly that they released postage stamps crying for gibmedats.

If you think it's bad today, you should've seen 700-1947.

t. Cowpiss drinker

Muslims are cancer but hindus are disgusting

>live peacefully

Kek nice propaganda you streetshitter

>/gsg/tards complain about muh borders in their shitty autism sims all the time
>meanwhile in REAL LIFE west and east pakistan acutally existed