Man what i am gonna post here won't be liked by many but nevertheless is the hard truth
1)Nehru and jinnah were both opportunists.
a)jinnah:He knew that if there is no partition,then he has no chance of getting to power whatsoever as many others like rajagopalachari,nehru,abul kalam azad and sardar patel were ahead of him.I am not saying jinnah was not popular,its just a relative comparison.He may have sensed some advantage for muslims if they got independence from erstwhile india but its my understanding that he may have factored in kashmir,hyderabad and maybe gujrat as part of pakistan which didn't happen.The problem is whatever may be the noble intentions of jinnah,its impossible for a nation to be based on religion and not culture.....look for arabs and iranians.Both have their culture intact,whereas pakistan was taught to be descendants of anything but hindus.The point is due to such distortion in the history especially by zia ul haq,,,,,u guys are simply taught to hate india in schools and precisely for such reason no one will appreciate my comment.
Almost all the people who were sold on the dream of pakistan,the major financiers were the industrialists and the landlords and after the death of jinnah these were the only people who gained as NO LAND REFORMS HAPPENED.On the top of that jinnah's death strangled democracy in pakistan.But there is no doubt jinnah was indeed a charismatic leader and contrary to what most people think,not religious.He had a parsi wife and followed no specific muslim norm.Such a person would have surely made pakistan a secular country had he stayed for 10-15 years
b)Nehru:He was just second in command in inc after sardar patel but on insistence of gandhi patel let him be the pm.Nehru was a good man,just like jinnah but ultimately a flawed leader believing in socialist principles and ideologies but he stabalized india.No one can doubt that.He fucked up in case of kashmir but his nationalistic credentials were never in question and he was the undisputed leader of india simply because after the dath of nehru and sardar patel he was the only leader with pan national appeal.We owe a lot to nehru,surely he made big blunders but he prevented bigger blunders too