Wednesday, April 8, 2009
A memory of partition
over 10 million people were uprooted from their homeland and travelled on foot, bullock carts and trains to their new home, the newly-created country called Pakistan, the land of the pure.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Modern India Timeline
1751 AD: Britain becomes the leading colonial power in India
1757 AD: British defeat Siraj-ud-daulah at the Battle of Plassey
1761 AD: Marathas rule over most of northern India
1764 AD: Britain expands to Bengal and Bihar
1769 AD: A famine kills ten million people in Bengal and the East India Company does nothing to help them
1773 AD: Warren Hastings, governor of Bengal establishes a monopoly on the sale of opium. Regulating Act passed by the British.
1793 AD: Permanent Settlement of Bengal
1799 AD: British defeat Tipu Sultan
1829 AD: Prohibition of Sati by law
1831 AD: Administration of Mysore is taken over by East India Company
1848 AD: Lord Dalhousie becomes the Governor-General of India
1853 AD: Railway, postal services & telegraph line introduced in India
1857 AD: First War of Indian Independence also known as Revolt of 1857 or Sepoy Mutiny
1858 AD: British Crown officially takes over the Indian Government
1877 AD: Queen of England is proclaimed as the Empress of India
1885 AD: First meeting of the Indian National Congress
1899 AD: Lord Curzon becomes Governor-General and Viceroy of India
1905 AD: The First Partition of Bengal takes place
1906 AD: Muslim League is formed
1912 AD: The Imperial capital shifted to Delhi from Calcutta
1919 AD: The cruel Jallianwalla Bagh massacre takes place due to protests against the Rowlatt Act
1920 AD: Non-cooperation Movement launched
1922 AD: Chauri-Chaura violence takes place due to Civil Disobedience Movement
1928 AD: Simon Commission comes to India and is boycotted by all parties
1930 AD: Salt Satyagraha is launched as an agitation against salt tax. First Round Table Conference takes place
1931 AD: Second Round Table Conference takes place and Irwin-Gandhi Pact is signed
1934 AD: Civil Disobedience Movement is called off
1942 AD: Cripps Mission is formed; Quit India Movement is launched; Indian National Army is formed.
3rd June 1947 AD: Lord Mountbatten's plan for partition of India comes into light
15th August 1947 AD: Partition of India and Independence from the British rule
Picture: At the Wagah border - the only Indo-Pak road crossing between Amritsar in India and Lahore in Pakistan. 
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
A Brief History
The Partition of india was the largest mess migration know to the world history. Therefore, I created this blog to show how the partition occurred and how it affected the people in that area.
The history of Hindu Muslim political disparity was actually originated from The Independence War of 1857. The 1857’s uprising was a joint effort of both Hindus and Muslims against English rule. But After the failure of the uprising and fall of Delhi, Hindu political leaders and the Hindu press, in trying to evade British revenge took charge against the Muslims and set the responsibility of so-called mutiny on Muslims. This way they safe guarded their benefits and Muslims in turned faced the horrific consequences of their participation in the uprising.
In 1867, nationalists were divided for the first time into Hindu and Muslim camps when Hindu religious zealots termed “Urdu”, the official language of India as the language of Muslims and started processions and protests to change Urdu to Dev Nagri Hindi. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the most notable Muslim intellectual and biggest supporter of Hindu-Muslim unity who, few years ago gave the famous line. ”Hindus and Muslims are Two Beautiful Eyes of a Beautiful Bride”. When saw the Hindu Nationalists are turning away their faces, first time in history stated that Muslims of India are a distinctive nation.
Muslim leaders led by Mohammed Ali Jinnah felt that the Hindus, by dominating the Indian National Congress, were beginning to dictate decision-making in British India. The Muslims felt they should have their own state in order to protect their Islamic heritage. So in 1940, the All-India Muslim League declared its desire for a separate state. Hindus began to feel uncomfortable about being a minority in a majority Muslim State. Relations between the two groups began to deteriorate.
In 1947, when the British left, partitioned India, it was a huge mess. The partition led lots of political problems between India and Pakistan. Boundary issues, left unresolved by the British, have caused two wars and continuing conflict between the two countries. Over the past fifty years, India and Pakistan have been in a state of constant hostility, fighting three wars in 1947-48, 1963 and 1971. In the last decade, they have fought over the possession of Kashmir and the drawing of boundaries in the high Himalayas.
After Partition
Impacts of partision
Start of the conflict between India and Pakistan Kasmir
The history of Hindu Muslim political disparity was actually originated from The Independence War of 1857. The 1857’s uprising was a joint effort of both Hindus and Muslims against English rule. But After the failure of the uprising and fall of Delhi, Hindu political leaders and the Hindu press, in trying to evade British revenge took charge against the Muslims and set the responsibility of so-called mutiny on Muslims. This way they safe guarded their benefits and Muslims in turned faced the horrific consequences of their participation in the uprising.
In 1867, nationalists were divided for the first time into Hindu and Muslim camps when Hindu religious zealots termed “Urdu”, the official language of India as the language of Muslims and started processions and protests to change Urdu to Dev Nagri Hindi. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the most notable Muslim intellectual and biggest supporter of Hindu-Muslim unity who, few years ago gave the famous line. ”Hindus and Muslims are Two Beautiful Eyes of a Beautiful Bride”. When saw the Hindu Nationalists are turning away their faces, first time in history stated that Muslims of India are a distinctive nation.
Muslim leaders led by Mohammed Ali Jinnah felt that the Hindus, by dominating the Indian National Congress, were beginning to dictate decision-making in British India. The Muslims felt they should have their own state in order to protect their Islamic heritage. So in 1940, the All-India Muslim League declared its desire for a separate state. Hindus began to feel uncomfortable about being a minority in a majority Muslim State. Relations between the two groups began to deteriorate.
In 1947, when the British left, partitioned India, it was a huge mess. The partition led lots of political problems between India and Pakistan. Boundary issues, left unresolved by the British, have caused two wars and continuing conflict between the two countries. Over the past fifty years, India and Pakistan have been in a state of constant hostility, fighting three wars in 1947-48, 1963 and 1971. In the last decade, they have fought over the possession of Kashmir and the drawing of boundaries in the high Himalayas.
After Partition
Impacts of partision
Start of the conflict between India and Pakistan Kasmir
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