PARTITION: AN INEVITABLE EVENT?

Abstract

Till date we have studied a lot on partition and partition literature. We have studied many causes of partition. The historians study the root causes, the researchers too studied the history. But the reason why violence took place is different. If we do a detailed analysis of their personal and political lives of the people involved in the decision making of partition we will find that they divided the people based on religion, especially on the border area. But the communities were living together even in the interior parts of the country, then why partition on the borders? When the Indian subcontinent was being divided the Muslim League leader had agreed that Pakistan will be secular state and people will be allowed to preach any religion. If that was so than what was the need for a separate nation? This paper aims partially at studying the lives of political leaders, like Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and the rulers who ruled Bengal during the partition period. The main objective of this paper is to find the validness of the decision of Partition or was the criteria on which the partition was based or took place was incorrect?