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As one of the best-known royal statues in India, the decision elicited strong feelings among those on both sides of the statues debate. One British expatriate living in Bombay, wrote to the editor of The Times of India to decry ‘the limits [to] which
- A Murderous Orgy
- Could The Genocide Have Been Avoided?
- A Hurried Drawing of Border Lines
- 70 Years Later
- Learning from History
Let us begin by recognizing the scale of barbarity that was unleashed by the mishandling of partition. No one has captured this more poignantly than Urdu’s most prominent short story writer, Saadat Hasan Manto, who according to his grandniece and eminent historian Ayesha Jalal“marveled at the stern calmness with which the British had rent asunder t...
The violence was not, in fact, entirely unexpected. On August 16, 1946, literally a year before actual partition, a glimpse of what was to come was on display: In what came to be called “the week of the long knives,”three days of rioting in Calcutta left more than 4,000 dead and 100,000 homeless. The hellish proportion of the slaughter that was to ...
The context for a bloody partition was set with the decision to sever Bengal in the east and Punjab in the west in half – giving Jinnah what he called a “moth-eaten Pakistan.” That killed any hopes of a federated India, which was Jinnah’s preference, if it allowed for power sharing and autonomy to Muslim majority provinces. To decide the fate of 40...
As the preeminent biographer of all the major political actors of British India’s last days, Wolpertacknowledges that many – and, most importantly, Indian political leaders themselves – contributed to the chaos that was 1947. But there is no room for doubt in Wolpert’s mind that “none of them played as tragic or central a role as did Mountbatten.” ...
Nowhere does the unfinished business of partition bleed more profusely than in the continuing conflict between India and Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir. Would a little more attention and a few more weeks of effort in 1947 have spared the world a nuclear-tipped time bomb that keeps ticking on both sides? We can never know the answer to this questio...
Oct 17, 2017 · With the royalty of India’s princely states gathered around him, he declared Delhi the capital of British India (it was earlier Calcutta) and himself the emperor of the British Raj.
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- Growing Indian nationalism. India had always been made up of a collection of princely states, many of which were rivals. At first, the British exploited this, using long-standing rivalries as part of their plan to divide and rule.
- The INC and Home Rule. The Indian National Congress (INC) was founded in 1885 with the aim of having a greater share in government for educated Indians, and to create a platform for civic and political dialogue between the British and Indians.
- Gandhi and Quit India Movement. Mahatma Gandhi was a British educated Indian lawyer who led an anti-colonial nationalist movement in India. Gandhi advocated for non-violent resistance to imperial rule, and rose to become President of the Indian National Congress.
- The Second World War. 6 years of war helped hasten the British departure from India. The sheer cost and energy expended during the Second World War had exhausted British supplies and highlighted the difficulties with successfully ruling India, a nation of 361 million people with internal tensions and conflicts.
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province of Bengal.
Mar 3, 2011 · In 1858, British Crown rule was established in India, ending a century of control by the East India Company. The life and death struggle that preceded this formalisation of British control...
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May 26, 2024 · As WWII battered Britain‘s resources and anti-colonial movements surged across the Empire, it became clear that British rule in India was unsustainable. In 1947, the British government, led by Prime Minister Clement Attlee, decided to expedite the transfer of power and partition the subcontinent.
