When is the Partition of India inevitable?

What's the latest POD that could be used to avert the Partition of India?

edit: never mind, the search function is working again and I've found there've been a large number of past threads covering this topic in great detail.
 
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A POD between the two world wars is required for avoiding the partition. If Britain had decided to award independence to India in the twenties or early thirties, the communal situation had not worsened as in the later years. It was during the period of second world war that the Hindu-Muslim rivalry reached a point of no return. Again it was the encouragement of the British Government that strengthened the Muslim League and Jinnah. Jinnah was originally a member of the Indian National Congress and a critique of the League and its ideology. He left the Congress only when he understood that he was not going to rise as a national leader through the Congress. He was a person guided by vanity and envy and obstinate with his ego.
 
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