if its a hindu-muslim thing plain and simple then whats millions of muslims are doing in India?
Living in peace and increasing prosperity in secular India.
A secularism and tolerance that comes naturally to the Hindu way of life and has done so down the millenia.
It is a hindu muslim thing brother. And I say it as one who belongs to neither.
I am not very good at history so I may be wrong but I see India as a unique case in world history, specifically the history that deals with Islamic conquests of nations.
Unlike other nations that became comletely Islamic post their invasion by muslim invaders, India never did. It resisted. It absorbed. It internalised.
It Indianised.
To the extent that the significant majority of Hindu India never converted or changed faith. Yet found space and a special place for those who did. In peace and harmony. As brothers.
In no other land of the world would you otherwise see such a large muslim population living and coexisting in peace side by side with a huge population belonging to another religion.
Can you name me one case?
So the bottom line is, those that still harbored that "conqueror" mindset and somehow saw themselves as different and "superior" to the rest of the non-muslim population, could not stomach the fact that the British screwed things up for them by taking over largely Muslim ruled India and leaving it to its future fate as a democratically and secularly ruled multi-cultural pluralist India with the Hindus in natural majority.
Sharing never entered their mindset. Only exclusivity at the cost of carving up the land for a pure muslim state did.
But make no mistake Jonasad. It was plain and simple power politics of the vote-bank type fuelled by lofty ideals of muslim identity, seovereignty, survival, and separate nation for separate people jingoism.
Cheers, Doc