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Quote by: Chris the Chees  Prior to the arrival of the British, India, as a single state had never existed. The partition, was the break up of a colony, not of a nation as was the case in Ireland. |
A distinction I will grant you. But, the ideal had been to have the Hindu and Muslim peoples of the same basic region and of the same ethnic, if not religious, heritage, form one nation. But because of the hatreds inflamed and encourged by the "Colonial Masters", this became an impossible task. So, my point stands.