Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Ghandi, the Indian lawyer who suffered discrimination and led peaceful protests against British occupation in India. Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi in 1948 which is reported to be connected to the creation of the state of Pakistan, although Ghandi, according to some sources, was very disappointed in partition as a response to conflict in India at the time.
The partition of India and Pakistan
In 1947 created a forced refugee crisis. This coincided with the integration of princely states into either India or Pakistan.
In 1905 under British crown rule, Bengal was partitioned, east Bengal being refuge for Muslims. This resulted in Hindus having to leave their land. There was bombing of public buildings in protest, and unrest, according to some reports, led to Muslims liaising with British gentry with ideas of political identity:
Arab traders are said to have been visitors in India from ancient times. Arab conquests, which are logged from the 8th Century onwards, may have begun in Bengal. There was controversy as Buddhism gave way to Islam following the demolition of Budhist temples. Proselytizing had a varying success rate. Muslims make up fourteen percent or so of the population of India and are mainly Sunni.
Reasons for the creation of the state of Pakistan have been blamed on the Indian rebellion of 1857 and the second Anglo-Afghan war. The British commissioned Cyril Radcliffe to demark the border.
In 2004, the Pakistani army launched a pursuit of Al-Qaeda members on the border with Afghanistan. The conflict is ongoing. According to official sources, Pakistan hasn’t witnessed such a devastating social and economic upheaval since the India Pakistan war in 1970. This resulted in East Pakistan becoming the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
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