#partition of india pakistan

[comparatist]

29.09.23

~ september nearly ends. october starts in 48 hours. here's me having a nice coffee break.

to/dos:

1. go through net paper 1 in ten days - notes, revision.

2. finish reading urvashi butaliya by tomorrow.

3. plan net paper 2.

4. start writing the papers due in october, november, december.

5. read for that annoying supplementary test.

|| currently reading- the other side of silence: voices from the partition of india, urvashi butaliya

[eretzyisrael]

[ayowotsdis]

This from a narrative of a South Asian.

[filtercoffeeonsteroids]

OMG GUYS ITS HAPPENING

We are getting our stuff back yayyyyy!!!!!

The imperialist assholes are getting what they deserve 😗😗👍

[janaknandini-singh999]

Y'all must read the play "Final Solutions" by Mahesh Dattani.

1947 is identified as the year that India and Pakistan gained independence from British Colonial rule. It is also the year that saw the formation of two separate states from one nation. One, Pakistan, was apparently founded on a theocratic principle and the other, India, founded apparently on principles of democracy and secularism. While the political establishment was celebrating the achievement of Independence and the formation of sovereign states, ordinary citizens were reeling from the shock of neighbours turning on each other and the dislocations where many were uprooted from the homes their families had lived in for generations. Although there have been several literary representations of the violence, of this traumatic severing of countries on religious and ethnic lines, there has been very little attempt in literature to link what is now obvious to most sociologists and even to the layman. Namely, communal tensions and fault lines in contemporary India have their origins in the trauma of partition as well as the lack of resolution or forgiveness. Mahesh Dattani’s play ‘Final Solutions’ is a rare literary/dramatic text that connects our contemporary context with the unforgiven trauma of 1947. This play places a modern liberal family in the middle of a communal riot—while two Muslim men seek sanctuary from the fundamentalist Hindu mob baying for their blood outside the house, inside the Hindu family must face their own demons—of the past as well as the present.

[historicalclaptrap]

Also sometime in the 18th century

India, holding onto England in the 18th centaury) : Yes he might be an invader, and yes he isn't house trained, and YES he may be capable of dark horrors beyond comprehension. But consider, he scrungly.

Pakistan stares in disbelief

India: ...Also he gives the best blowjobs this side of the Himalaya-

Pakistan: Brother!

[runalongprincevaliant]

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Read through all the slides. More than one country has been divided by the Empire for their own greed.

[sarologue]

started 1971 today, so far so good

[femme-objet]

youd have a hard time convincing me that each people deserve their own ethnostate where they get to run their own apartheid. fundamentally fascist way of perceiving humanity

[daaft-prick-69]

History has to be read and remembered so that the lessons are not forgotten and the mistakes are not repeated.

[starlightshadowsworld]

Hi, Pakistani here 👋 I've heard bits and pieces on the splitting of India and Pakistan. Some I can't find anywhere online, and some that's even more gruesome than what I heard, and some that I wonder if I'm viewing from a biased western perspective. Know any channels that have the full truth?

Hey! 👋🏼

I'm afraid the only ones I've got that I trust are Never such innocence and Cultural India,

If anyone else is more knowledgeable about this subject and know of more resources, feel free to add em on.

[eretzyisrael]

[plumtree-tennessee]

India and Pakistan, a conflict that truly supersedes borders.

[notsohots-blog]

Just completed reading "Train to Pakistan" by Khushwant Singh and I am in an emotional turmoil and utter confusion...like what happened to Nooran and her child afterwards? Did she ever come to know that Juggat, her love, sacrificed his life? Mannn....What about Juggat's mother? What happened to the wannabe-leader Iqbal, honestly he was a scumbag....then Hukum Chand, did he ever get to meet the girl about whom he was so confused??????

Like why do writers do this??? Where's the epilogue man???? Where is the POV of other people???????

[postpunkpsychedelilah]

this land won't love you back

pause this pesky patriotism this land won't love you back if it's chest is torn into two hundred different shreds  if you've sliced through it's skin like the sword of our fathers that glided with a silent violence  underneath the jaws of their own brothers a kinship as close as the mind and the body separated only by a spine  that we lost to colonial exploits a history obscured to new names invented with a scientific rigor a supposedly secular pursuit of self-repression self-care or self-control i can't tell the difference  i don't necessarily disagree with self-care i just think it's self-harm to reduce the self  into a sense of identity with the self  to break an unbounded world into territories  will leave misfit pieces with no boxes to fit in not on this form not on this form  self-care is not self-care behind the unsaid post-anxious self-limitation post anxious post self post limitation there is a self is outside the perceived self under a tree sprinkled with the sporadic sun  there is a self outside the self-self in a dream by the endless sea endless futures to care for and endless paths intersecting  for a moment to create an eternal body of everything from nothing if therapy is self-care i think the we should do it in groups it might be harder to share, but it's easier to heal i imagine this is what they call high risk high reward on wall street i've never been on wall street i don't agree with their thirst and it doesn't agree with me but if i happened to be there i'd console myself with the usual gesture that the revolution is probably the most sincere form of self-care and after seeing what happened at the plantations i would put salt on my wounds before i would put sugar in my tea again

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in 1947, British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan. In 1971, Bangladesh broke off from Pakistan. In 2023, I was in Jackson Heights in Queens, NY (pictured above), where immigrant families from all three of these nation-states live in peace. For a moment, I felt a joy seeing this cohabitation of a divided people, but then that joy was overcome suddenly just as I realized that the forces that brought these people to this Jackson Heights were indeed the same forces of imperial profit machineries that split our home subcontinent into three pieces.

[dumpshittybrain]

India has not attacked Pakistan, it has only attacked terror camps in the territory that has been occupied by Pakistan for the last 70 years.

Muslims in India are fortunate to be living in a country where they can breathe freely and they should believe in "Islam of Allah, and not in Islam of Mullah".

~Tarek Fatah,Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author.

If I have one idol, it is Mr. Tarek Fateh

A little about him:

Tarek Fatah (November 1949–24 April 2023) was a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author.

Fatah advocated LGBT rights, a separation of religion and state, opposition to sharia law, and advocacy for a liberal, progressive form of Islam.

He called himself "an Indian born in Pakistan" and "a Punjabi born into Islam" and is a vocal critic of the Pakistani religious and political establishment.

To this end, Fatah has criticized the partition of India.

The struggles he had to face for speaking the truth and opposing radical Pakistani Islamic policies:

He was a leftist student leader in the 1960s and 1970s and was imprisoned twice by military regimes.

In 1977, he was charged with sedition and barred from journalism by the Zia-ul Haq regime.

In early 2011, Fatah said that he received a threat via Twitter. Fatah contacted Toronto Police Service and later met with two police officers from 51 Division. Fatah said that police intelligence officers, one a Muslim officer who had shut down a previous investigation into a death threat, shut down the investigation and claimed there was no threat.

Assassination attempt:

In 2017, Indian police arrested two men who were hired by Chhota Shakeel to assassinate Fatah.

Wikipedia article:

We lost this warrior, one of the bravest and most influential personalities of our time to cancer on 24 April 2023.

May the highest power grant him peace.