No, it didn't. But something as complex as this - you would ideally be grateful for the extra time. There were lots of issues in Punjab and Bengal. Not just from religious perspective - but canals, water supplies, places of religious worship etc. Bengal was easier relatively because it had been partitioned once before in 1905 by Lord Curzon.
UP Muslim population is still more than 20% of the total population. At the time of partition atleast a million migrated to Pakistan from UP, which clearly shows that Population of Muslim in UP at that would be more than 30%.
Goa? Goa was a Portuguese colony. India negotiated in good faith for 14 years for its return. It then took less than 24 hours to liberate it.
Jinnah, who despite what Indian media paints was a decent guy and a fantastic lawyer. His opposition to British Rule was there but he sought to achieve it using Constitutional means. So he never went to jail. He was groomed by Gokhale and Tilak. But the rest of them were just wealthy landowners. There is no Nehru or Bose or Lala Lajpat Rai or Bhagat Singh. Although one can say that if Pakistanis want, they can claim both Bhagat Singh and Lala Lajpat Rai.
the main reason was Jinah was not in limelight. He was a congress member till 1921 I guess. anyway ML didn't win seats till 1945 elections, so MLeague wasn't threat till WW2.
Without any genuinely impartial accounts from the time in question, we would simply be speculating over motives. It could easily be argued that the British were intent on provoking both parties in the subcontinent. The British may have perceived both these scenarios as a threat: (1) a strong independent Muslim majority nation that had no territorial disputes with and was peacefully trading with the republic of India. This would permit this potentially very powerful Muslim majority nation to engage actively in the middle east and threaten British interests there. (2) a unified republic of India which also pursued interests independently and antagonistically towards Britain. Congress actually ideologically opposed certain other colonial projects and a unified Congress led republic of India may have been perceived as equally threatening to Britain - I'm only speculating on this one as the first one is obvious. This second scenario is stretching things but British interests at the time were different to what they are now, China wasn't an issue for starters.
True dat brother. But still better than being a former French colony....
Quaid,s message to the Nation on 18th August, 1947
Mr Jinnah always believed that the force of moral and ethical power would prevail over material and imperial strength. He confronted adversaries who vastly outnumbered his own supporters and resources with the pure, pristine power of concepts, facts, arguments, persuasive articulation and, most of all, sterling qualities of character and courage which did not need even an iota of physical force to press his case for Pakistan. So scrupulously did he believe in the sanctity of law, of the written texts that codify desirable and acceptable norms of behaviour that the colonial British Government simply could not find a legal basis to send him to jail!
