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Post by whiteshore on Aug 15, 2016 3:00:27 GMT
Let's say that at Partition, Pakistan gets the Punjab and Kashmir (the bits which became part of India OTL) but India gets East Bengal instead of it becoming part of Pakistan. How do India and Pakistan develop with this alternate partition scheme? Is Pakistan less overtly Islamic due to the need to appease large Hindu and Sikh minorities in the Eastern Punjab (the part of the Punjab which became part of India historically)?
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Post by Krall on Aug 15, 2016 5:04:05 GMT
How would this alternate partition happen? Kashmir is understandable, since it's majority Muslim, but why would Pakistan want the Eastern Punjab and forego East Bengal?
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Post by orvillethird on Aug 16, 2016 13:02:34 GMT
It would likely mean no Pakistani Civil War, and fewer tensions- though the guard ceremony would likely still go on.
As for Kashmir, it was a majority-Muslim area that was ruled by a Hindu. Indian leaders claimed the territory right down to the postal system. Perhaps if Lord Mountbatten was a bit more circumspect in signing off on things? (If I'm remembering what I read correctly.)
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Post by whiteshore on Aug 19, 2016 10:49:49 GMT
Considering that the OTL Indian Punjab is also Pakistani in this scenario, I could see India and Pakistan, if not friends, at least have a live and let live relationship?
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Post by Krall on Aug 19, 2016 11:45:56 GMT
Considering that the OTL Indian Punjab is also Pakistani in this scenario, I could see India and Pakistan, if not friends, at least have a live and let live relationship? Why would that be the case? Surely India would be angry that a region that's not majority Muslim was granted to Pakistan, and similarly Pakistan would be angry that the Muslim regions of Bengal were given to India. |
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