: Indo-Pak Reunification – Is it a Pipe Dream? #WorldNEWSAll We appeal to Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis to consider joining us in this historical reunification endeavour. I have read Junaid Jahangirs

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Indo-Pak Reunification – Is it a Pipe Dream? #WorldNEWSAll
We appeal to Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis to consider joining us in this historical reunification endeavour.
I have read Junaid Jahangirs article Pakistanis need to think more critically about United India. Junaid has opposed the idea of Indo-Pak reunification, and I wish to respond.
I have consistently been advocating for peaceful and voluntary reunification of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (like reunification of West and East Germany) under a secular government led by modern minded leaders determined to rapidly industrialise and modernise our reunited country, and usher in an era wherein all our people can enjoy a high standard of living and decent lives.
I have submitted that India and Pakistan (and Bangladesh) are really one country, sharing the same culture, and were one since Mughal times.
I have explained in several articles, that there was no communalism, i. e. Hindu-Muslim animosity and hatred before 1857. No doubt even before that year Hindus would go to temples and Muslims to mosques, but there was no animosity between them.
Rather, they used to help each in time of need, and jointly participate in each others festivals, Hindus participating in Eid and Moharram, and Muslims in Holi and Diwali.
Muslim rulers, like the Mughals, Nawabs of Avadh and Murshidabad, Tipu Sultan, etc were almost all secular,and used to organise Ramlilas and paricipate in Holi and Diwali
Mutiny 1857
In 1857 the Mutiny broke out, in which Hindus and Muslims jointly fought against the Britishers. This so much shocked the Britishers that they decided that the only way to control and rule over India was divide and rule (see in this connection BN Pandes speech in the Indian Upper House of Parliament, which quotes the letters coming high officials in London to the Governor General of India asking him to divide the two communities in India and make them hostile to each other)
This nefarious policy of divide and rule was implemented systematically year after year and decade after decade, in various ways, mentioned in my article The Cause of Communalism in India , that it culminated in Indias Partition in 1947, in which about half a million people were killed, and several million displaced.
Partition was done by the Britishers on the basis of the two nation theory, that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations. I submit that this theory was bogus.
If religion is the basis of a nation then Britain too should be partitioned into about a dozen pieces, Anglicans having one part, Presbyterians (who are mostly in Scotland) another, Roman Catholics another, Jews another, Hindus yet another, so also Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc.
Similarly, USA, France, Germany, etc will all have to be partitioned, since there are people of various religions living in those countries.

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