Maula Jatt
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way too much PTSD for that- congress or ML leadership or SAD didn't try calming tensions here unlike in Bengal or India proper cause people didn't think it would be as violent as it would be in other places considering the history/ lack their ofI am glad to know this is understood by contemporary pakistanis what coeval punjabis thought at that time.
There was and is( less numerous now) a section of sikhs that would like to revert the times to the golden rule.
What they probably dont understand is, it's is not possible without overwhelming force, which they dont have.
I think we can all agree punjab partition 8s set in stone, with no reversion path.
but turned out to be the opposite
"as late as November 1945, the Commander of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, predicted that the “principal danger areas (for ethnic (basically religious conflict) conflict) are likely to lie in the United Provinces, Bihar and Bengal”, these having also been the principal areas where religious rioting had taken place in the years leading up to Independence"
modern-day Pakistan region was the most peaceful region for minorities in all of British India before the partition- the idea that Muslims have always hated non-Muslims is wrong, if anything Non-muslim majority region at least under British suffered the most from communal violence, which led to demand for Pakistan in the first place
but yes first to admit that after the partition our parents hated any non-Muslims and Muslim identity became paramount above everything else
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