WI: Different partition of India

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I was wondering WI: there was a bigger Pakistan but no Bangladesh?

Basically, Pakistan has Kashmir and all of the Punjab (the OTL Indian province of Punjab), but India has greater Bengal...



Any thoughts?
 
Hmm, well for one it would make Pakistan more likely to be less overtly Islamic if the Punjab was included.

Depending on how they got the Punjab/Kashmir you would also remove two points of conflict that would make hopefully less chance for India - Pakistani wars.

For international peace it probably would be a good thing
 
Hold on, don't leave just yet.

I was wondering WI: there was a bigger Pakistan but no Bangladesh?

Basically, Pakistan has Kashmir and all of the Punjab (the OTL Indian province of Punjab), but India has greater Bengal...



Any thoughts?

Don't see how that is possible unless the POD is that all of Punjab ends up being majority Muslim and all of Bengal ends up being majority Hindu long before partition is even thought of. If the OTL Punjab and Bengal were used then Pakistan would end up with a lot of Hindus and one of the most Muslim parts of India (eastern Bengal) would end up not being in the land intended for India's Muslims. At which point the whole idea of partition would probably be questioned.
 
Just a question about this subject: could be possible a division were both Pakistan and Bangladesh are separated from India, but as two independent nations rather than a single Muslim country divided in two parts (Eastern and Western)?
 
I was under the impression that splitting regions like the Punjab down the middle was an effort to keep them from forming their own nation. If all of the Punjab was in Pakistan, would they declare independence?
 
Hold on, don't leave just yet.

I was wondering WI: there was a bigger Pakistan but no Bangladesh?

Basically, Pakistan has Kashmir and all of the Punjab (the OTL Indian province of Punjab), but India has greater Bengal...



Any thoughts?
I read that this actually was one of the early proposals for Pakistan, but I don't think it would have had any chance of succeeding. The Muslim state would have ended up with a giant non-Muslim minority, while coming nowhere near including all the Muslim areas of the subcontinent.
 
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