The British ruled over the Indians with a well thought out strategy of ‘divide and rule’. Then before leaving India, they created such a division that has become like a sore in the heart of Mother India. Whenever the day before independence, that is Pakistan’s Independence Day, is discussed, then we remember the country being divided into two parts and millions of citizens being shattered and lost…
Historians say that the British divided India and Pakistan in a hurry. The last Governor General of that time, Lord Mountbatten, wanted the two countries to be divided somehow so that their internal strength is weakened. He was not concerned even a bit about the citizens of India and Pakistan. He was in a hurry to remove the British soldiers from India at any cost. Not only this, Cyril Radcliffe, the British officer who drew the line of division between the two countries, had come to India only a few weeks ago. He created two countries by drawing a line without understanding the religious and cultural conditions.
This one line drawn by Cyril Radcliffe created an everlasting gulf between the Hindus and Muslims of both the countries. The British declared Pakistan an independent country on 14 August 1947 and India celebrated independence on 15 August 1947. But 14 August was a very bad day for India. This was the day when lakhs of people were migrating from here to Pakistan and lakhs of people were leaving Pakistan for Lahore. This was such a period of rumours that humanity was shamed by riots, looting, indecency with women and genocide.
The British rule had given India the happiness of independence by paying a huge price of partition. On 14 August, India and Pakistan were divided into two parts. Even on the morning of 15 August, these people were going from their motherland to another country by trains, horses, mules and on foot. It seemed as if all the colours had vanished from the faces of those coming from Pakistan to India and vice versa. With bundles on their heads, bare feet, tattered clothes, with the biggest tragedy of their lives in their eyes, these people were somehow trying to find their existence between the two countries.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)