Was India's partition a historical fluke?

The Avenger

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I'm wondering if India's partition was a historical fluke or whether it was likely to happen in other alt-hist scenarios as well.

Ex.: if there's no WWI and/or WWII, does India still get partitioned?

What if Jinnah dies young? Is there still a partition of India?

Thoughts? Specifically, just how inevitable do you think India's partition actually was--especially if we're talking about a PoD from the late 19th century or later?
 

Srihari14

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I'm wondering if India's partition was a historical fluke or whether it was likely to happen in other alt-hist scenarios as well.

Ex.: if there's no WWI and/or WWII, does India still get partitioned?

What if Jinnah dies young? Is there still a partition of India?

Thoughts? Specifically, just how inevitable do you think India's partition actually was--especially if we're talking about a PoD from the late 19th century or later?

Partition main proponent was Jinnah, if he never left the Congress or believed in two nation theory, partition would not have occurred
 

Srihari14

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OK.

Also, what do you think a united India would look like?
If India can get past religious violence , then they could be one of the emerging powers of Asia,
War is Afghanistan is either butterflied away or much briefer
Muslims of India would be much better of as they would not have the problem of lack of leadership
India remains either completely neutral during the cold war or is pro USA,
China and India relations would be much more tense
Islamic terrorism would not have Been this global
 
If India can get past religious violence , then they could be one of the emerging powers of Asia,
War is Afghanistan is either butterflied away or much briefer
Muslims of India would be much better of as they would not have the problem of lack of leadership
India remains either completely neutral during the cold war or is pro USA,
China and India relations would be much more tense
Islamic terrorism would not have Been this global
Not to mention lovely peoples like yahya khan being reigned in by the civil government.
I also can't see a zia ul haq getting as much power as he did.
That's a big positive.
 

Srihari14

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Not to mention lovely peoples like yahya khan being reigned in by the civil government.
I also can't see a zia ul haq getting as much power as he did.
That's a big positive.
Coup in modern day itself is impossible due to so many languages , ethnicities and religions, in a united, the situation would be same
 
If India can get past religious violence , then they could be one of the emerging powers of Asia,
War is Afghanistan is either butterflied away or much briefer
Muslims of India would be much better of as they would not have the problem of lack of leadership
India remains either completely neutral during the cold war or is pro USA,
China and India relations would be much more tense
Islamic terrorism would not have Been this global
There wouldn’t be a war in Afghanistan. The Indians wouldn’t allow supplies and men to flow to the Mujahideen so the Soviets would win the war.
 

Srihari14

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Also Bengal would be better of as it would not have genocide of their intellectual and not artificial border across fertile plains
 
Also Bengal would be better of as it would not have genocide of their intellectual and not artificial border across fertile plains
This so much, the partition unleashed horror after horror on the Bengali people and kept doing so until after the bangladeshi independence.
Also punjab being undivided would make a lot of butterflies too.
 

Srihari14

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This so much, the partition unleashed horror after horror on the Bengali people and kept doing so until after the bangladeshi independence.
Also punjab being undivided would make a lot of butterflies too.
Yeah punjab region will also be better, some Indian districts of Punjab would be Islamic while some Pakistani districts would be Hindu, it would be much more mixed
Sindh will also not culture change with a lot of Indian refugees arriving there
 

The Avenger

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Also Bengal would be better of as it would not have genocide of their intellectual and not artificial border across fertile plains
Bangladesh's borders are actually pretty sensible from a religious perspective. It's the Chittagong Hill Tracts that are the big issue.

Also, how much of Bangladesh's intellectuals did Pakistan kill in 1971?
 

Srihari14

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Bangladesh's borders are actually pretty sensible from a religious perspective. It's the Chittagong Hill Tracts that are the big issue.

Also, how much of Bangladesh's intellectuals did Pakistan kill in 1971?
The official number is over 1,000. With many of them bring physicians and economists, but I suspect the number to to higher
 
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