Pakistan Punjab vs Indian Punjab

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Re: Pakistan Punjab vs Indian Punjab

@muqawwee123

I can understand your views, but that generation faced a lot and partition’s trauma was larger than life for that generation. That generation somehow realised that divisions only bring problems. I remember reading her autobiography where she refused to visit her homeland after so many years of partition (when she got opportunity to visit India), but she refused at last moment saying that she wanted to keep same image of her homeland intact in her mind. With this mindset, further splitting of homeland was not easy to perceive, when she knew that such division will only benefit elites (as was her first experience)

I wouldn’t say that whole generation of her time shared this point of view. Yes there was a lot of bloodshed during partition and caused a lot of misery but doesn’t that emphasize the rocky relationship between 2 religions? I mean why did they start killing each other for wanting to live in their own land if they were living so peacefully among themselves, doesn’t add up. Also the feudal lords or elites controlled land even before the partition. Them still having upper hand has to do with a corrupt system not partition. Despite all this, I can still understand her point of view though, it’s not easy to accept something that caused many deaths of her relatives.