Partition of India

The Partition of India refers to the regions of northwestern India and parts of eastern India being partitioned away from the country in order to create Pakistan. It was caused by the British support for the Muslim League, though it was opposed my many politicians, political parties and religious groups. The Partition of India led to the killing and forced conversion of around 4.75 million Hindus.

Islamic Origins

For Hundreds of years, India had been occupied by tyrannical Islamic Empires. These invaders indulged in mass killing, rape and destruction of Hindu temples. The Hindus who were not killed suffered heavy taxation(Jizya Tax), which resulted in many poor people having to convert to Islam.

In the 1700's, an Islamic scholar by the name of Shah Waliullah Dehlavi, declared India Dar-ul Harb. Dehlavi approached the Emir of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Abdali in the year of 1761, requesting him to invade India. He also convinced the Muslim Nawabs to support Abdali's invasion.

Additionally, 34 Ulemas(councils of Islamic scholars) issued fatwas declaring India as Dar ul Harb.

Almost 60 years later, in 1821, the son of Dehlavi, Shah Abdul Aziz, appointed Syed Ahmed Barelvi to preach Islamic Jihad in India. With the support of the British, Barelvi created an army of Muslim extremists for Northern India.

Under the British

• After the 1857 Indian War of Independence, the British confiscated and gifted lands of Hindus to Muslims who were loyal to the British. Additionally, non-interference in Muslim religious places was guaranteed
• In 1875, Madarsatul-Uloom Musulman-e-Hind/Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College, by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in Aligarh. It was renamed as Aligarh Muslim university in the year 1920.
• In 1905, the British split Bengal by separating Muslim eastern areas from Hindu Western areas. The Muslims then called for Jihad with the goal of converting Eastern Bengal into Dar-ul-Islam(Muslim controlled land)
• Muslims with the support of the British officers and magistrates, attacked Hindus
• Rabindranath Tagore led a mass protest against the partition of Bengal
• The 1st Lieutenant Governor of the new province, Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller, treated this as treason, and let police loose on Hindus
• On December 12,1911, the partition of Bengal was removed due to staunch opposition from Indian nationalists
• On December 1906, The Muslim League was founded at the "All India Muhammadan Educational Conference"
• In "Lal Ishtihar", Muslims were directed not to buy, not to touch anything manufactured by Hindus, and not to study in the same school
• In 1907, Muslim mobs led by Nawab Salimullah of Dhaka, perpetrated assaults, rapes, looting, and murders against Hindus. They additionally desecrated Hindu and temples and destroyed Hindu properties.
• In the year 1909, the British passed Morley/Minto reforms giving a separate electorate for Muslims. It promoted Anti-Hindu and Islamic separatist leadership
• In 1921, the Moplah Riots broke in Kerala as part of the Khilafat Movement. Kerala Muslims were told to establish Dar-ur-Islam by killing all "Kafirs"(Hindus). "Allah-hu Akbar" became a battle cry for the Muslims. Over 1,500 Hindus were slaughtered, 20,000 Hindus were forcibly converted to Islam, property worth Hundreds of thousands of dollars looted, Hindus women raped and abducted;over 100,000 people were driven out of their homes

Pakistan Movement

• The word "Pakistan" was invented by Islamic Supremacist Chaudhry Rehmat Ali and 3 other Cambridge Muslim students. Pakistan stood for P-Punjab, A-Afghanistan, K-Kashmir, S-Sindh, Tan-Balochistan. A pamphlet by the name of "Now or Never" was circulated by Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, with "Seven Commandments of the destiny of Dinia(India)"
• On August 16, 1946, Muhammad Ali Jinnah proclaimed "Direct Action Day". Soon after, more than 4,000 Hindus were massacred at the hands of Muslim mobs in the city of Calcutta.
• On October 10, 1946, Muslim mobs massacred 5,000 Hindus in the Noakhali region of Bengal and raped hundreds of women. Many thousands more were also forced to concert to Islam. On the island of Sandwip, gasoline was imported from the mainland to burn down houses owned by Hindus.
• In March of 1947, incited by the Pir of Golra Sharif, Muslim League mobs attacked Hindus and Sikhs in villages of Multan, Rawalpindi, Campbellpur, and Jhelum Sargodha.

Creation of Pakistan

On June 3, 1947, the Congress Party gave in and accepted the Mountbatten Plan, which meant that India will be partitioned. On August 15, India and Pakistan became independent countries from the British Empire.