Anderson, "Why Partition?" (2012)
(2) Gandhi and 'Das Kapital'
(6) useful description of ML Weakness
(7) Nehru arrogance re: unity of India (when Congress was only 3% Muslim)
(8) from Muslims as trouble-makers (post-Mutiny), to Hindus (during nationalist movement), to Muslims (under Mountbatten) [this seems somewhat exaggerated, given the dividends of the ML posture during WWII]
(9) Labour committed to United India, for strategic reasons
(10) Jinnah couldn't sqaure the circle: how could a Muslim-majority 'secede'/be autonomous while also protecting Muslim minorities in the other provinces
(11) League talked of partition, prepared for confederation; Nehru talked of unity, prepared for secession (motivated by commitment to presiding over central State)
(11) Menon and Commonwealth
(12) NWFP was the only place that held a referendum
(12) Jinnah was willing to accept a United Bengal
(14) Redshirts boycotted referendum, angry at Congress' willingness to consider Partition
(14) great quote, re: partition from above: 'never did so few divide so many, so needlessly'
(15) more violence in Punjab than Bengal, though huge numbers crisscrossing inboth
(16) Partition as 'the single most contempible act..'
(16) 550 out of 560 of the native princes were Hindu potentates
(17) Kashmir as obscurantist feudal tyranny--death to Muslim peasants that killed cow, etc.
(17) Sheikh Abdullah regarded Jinnah an athiest
(20) Patel waving accession document, 'As if the fate of five million were a lottery ticket'
(20) Indian case rests on Sheikh Abdullah working w/ Nehru
(20) NWFP referendum [Anderson mentioning Pakistan won, but not at all mentioning the extremely reactionary ways in which ML persuaded poor villagers to vote]
(21) Gandhi treachery--Kashmir belongs to the Maharajah, etc., etc.
(22) 'Condition of Ambedkar's sanity was breaking with Hinduism', which Nehru didn't do [going a bit Dawkins on me?]
(23) 27,000 to 40,000 Muslims killed after Hyderabad invasion [!]
(23) Ratio of natives to colonials was highest in Raj (1:3,650 vs. 1:475 in Vietnam)
(24) Punjab was the British model--not 'divide-and-rule', but unite-the-reactionaries
(24) Gandhi 'injected' religion [but this is precisely how Jinnah built the base you're extolling]
(26) Congress' was a 'fatal partisan arrogance'
(27) [way too forgiving towards the ML]
(27) religious revivalism was inevitable--something to do with the 'deep culture' of this place [WTF is that about, Perry?]
(2) Gandhi and 'Das Kapital'
(6) useful description of ML Weakness
(7) Nehru arrogance re: unity of India (when Congress was only 3% Muslim)
(8) from Muslims as trouble-makers (post-Mutiny), to Hindus (during nationalist movement), to Muslims (under Mountbatten) [this seems somewhat exaggerated, given the dividends of the ML posture during WWII]
(9) Labour committed to United India, for strategic reasons
(10) Jinnah couldn't sqaure the circle: how could a Muslim-majority 'secede'/be autonomous while also protecting Muslim minorities in the other provinces
(11) League talked of partition, prepared for confederation; Nehru talked of unity, prepared for secession (motivated by commitment to presiding over central State)
(11) Menon and Commonwealth
(12) NWFP was the only place that held a referendum
(12) Jinnah was willing to accept a United Bengal
(14) Redshirts boycotted referendum, angry at Congress' willingness to consider Partition
(14) great quote, re: partition from above: 'never did so few divide so many, so needlessly'
(15) more violence in Punjab than Bengal, though huge numbers crisscrossing inboth
(16) Partition as 'the single most contempible act..'
(16) 550 out of 560 of the native princes were Hindu potentates
(17) Kashmir as obscurantist feudal tyranny--death to Muslim peasants that killed cow, etc.
(17) Sheikh Abdullah regarded Jinnah an athiest
(20) Patel waving accession document, 'As if the fate of five million were a lottery ticket'
(20) Indian case rests on Sheikh Abdullah working w/ Nehru
(20) NWFP referendum [Anderson mentioning Pakistan won, but not at all mentioning the extremely reactionary ways in which ML persuaded poor villagers to vote]
(21) Gandhi treachery--Kashmir belongs to the Maharajah, etc., etc.
(22) 'Condition of Ambedkar's sanity was breaking with Hinduism', which Nehru didn't do [going a bit Dawkins on me?]
(23) 27,000 to 40,000 Muslims killed after Hyderabad invasion [!]
(23) Ratio of natives to colonials was highest in Raj (1:3,650 vs. 1:475 in Vietnam)
(24) Punjab was the British model--not 'divide-and-rule', but unite-the-reactionaries
(24) Gandhi 'injected' religion [but this is precisely how Jinnah built the base you're extolling]
(26) Congress' was a 'fatal partisan arrogance'
(27) [way too forgiving towards the ML]
(27) religious revivalism was inevitable--something to do with the 'deep culture' of this place [WTF is that about, Perry?]
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