Sudhir Rai
This article seeks to shed light on the role of a particular historical event in providing legitimacy to Communal and national politics. The Partition of India in 1947 was both a violent result of long-standing hostility between Hindu and Muslim extremists and, after Independence, became an example of violent conflict that ethnic and religious extremists well as hard-line groups in India and Pakistan, looked up to and copied. It also argues that the partition shows the worst side of identity politics: When trust and understanding are lost, fear and insecurity take over, causing problems at many levels of state and society and creates a harmful socio-political system. I try to show how such a system functions within the domestic sphere as well as in India-Pakistan political interaction This not only destroyed the millions of life but also left the horror of mindless hate and violence. Being a student in department of history, I try to show how the partition of Indian Subcontinent affected the people and tragic that India should have found Dominion status in Division not in unity.
India, Partition of 1947