India Pakistan Partition BBC Special Presentation

[Ali_Syed]

Re: India Pakistan Partition BBC Special Presentation

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From what I read, relations between Sikh, Hindu and Muslim Punjabis was very cordial and pleasant prior to 1920’s.

It was only after fundamentalist muslims from U.P/Bihar started to move into Punjab in the 1920’s -1930’s + partition politics that relations started going bad.

There was always mistrust between muslims and hindus/sikhs (in Punjab). One of the main complaints that muslims had was that hindus considered them worse as compared to untouchables.

As far as Punjab is concerned, there’s no role of “UP muslims” in initiating the rioting. What ever happened was carried out by the people living there (Hindu, Muslim and Sikhs) and the main reason was the division of the province.