what effect did the partition have on gandhiji's time and energy
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From my understanding of Indian freedom struggle....
Partition was a plan of Mountbatten and both Mr. Gandhi and Nehru (the important representatives of the country) were against it.
The British were ready to give independence to India only when some conditions are satisfied.
a suitable solution for Hindu - Muslim problem was also a primary one.
In fact the labor party had this in their political campaign as well.. to victory
Partition was supposed to cater interests of both parties at per Mountbatten.
Some of the Congress leaders were convinced of this approach.. Sardar Patel the main leader among this faction.
They thought that instead of staying together and fight it is better to break into 2 nations.
People like Maulana Azad along with Gandhi and Nehru were not interested and were continually rejecting the idea even if the independence is delayed...
Mountbatten slowly brought one after the other Congress leaders into his faction as part of his plan of action and the pull from Muslim league also increased (once again thanks to British, otherwise the Muslim league did not demand partition and could not and were fine with the Province plan )
Some mistakes were then done by some Congress leader which further increased the distance between league and aicc
Slowly it looked like there was no other option left to solve this Hindu - Muslim problem and finally Gandhi gave it up.
This was when maulana also gave it up and there was no friction within the aicc and league to agree with the Mountbatten plan...
Which eventually came into affect...
Recently Mahatma Gandhi's grandson and scholar Mr. Rajmohan Gandhi delivered a lecture on Gandhi and Punjab. I could not attend the lecture but had the good fortune to interact briefly with Mr. Gandhi before he delivered it. I understand that while he recalled the relationship between the Mahatma and Punjab he did not address the most intriguing and inexplicable aspect related to the subject. Despite his known and passionate opposition to the Partition why did not Gandhi actively oppose it when the Congress Working Committee formally accepted it as early as June 3, 1947? Instead the Mahatma observed on that crucial moment his day of silence.
I believe I have the answer to clear this mystery. Up till that time the riot casualties in the Punjab province were just about 1000 dead. This hardly justified the Congress reneging on its solemn pledge to the people of India to not accept Partition. But Nehru and Patel were both keen to accept Partition and take over the reins of government in an independent India. Gandhi wanted to avoid a confrontation with his protégés at that stage. He had good reason to believe that despite Congress accepting Partition it would not occur because the Muslim League would not accept it.
It might be recalled that Jinnah had virtually no strength of his own in Punjab. He was heavily dependent on the Unionist Party which was the strongest in the state. The Unionist Party in a coalition with the Congress and the Akali Dal governed Punjab under its Chief Minister, Sir Khizr Hayat Khan Tiwana. After the riots in Rawalpindi in March 1947 which claimed 1000 lives the Punjab assembly was divided between the dominant Muslim areas in the west and the dominant non-Muslim areas in the east. The last election under British rule, the National Constituent Assembly poll, which was considered to be a referendum on the creation of Pakistan, had already taken place in 1945. In that election which had a separate Muslim electorate the majority of Muslims voted in favour of Pakistan. It then remained for Punjab and Bengal provinces to give their verdicts in the provincial elections held in 1946.
The Unionist Party, which had prominent Hindu and Sikh leaders such as Sir Chhotu Ram, who died in 1945 before independence, and Sardar Baldev Singh along with Muslim leaders, was bitterly opposed to the partition of Punjab. The tallest Unionist Party leader Sir Sikander Hayat Khan said before his death in 1942 that if the creation of Pakistan meant the partition of Punjab then his party would strongly oppose Pakistan. Sir Khizr pleaded with Governor Jenkins that Britain stay on in Punjab after independence rather than divide it! After the Punjab assembly was divided following the Rawalpindi riots the West Punjab assembly dominated by Punjabi Muslims voted overwhelmingly against the partition of Punjab. The Hindus and Sikhs in the East Punjab assembly not wanting to live in Pakistan, the creation of which had been endorsed in the preceding Constituent Assembly election of 1945, voted for the partition of Punjab.
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- 1. THe essence of gandhji teaching was meant not for his people alone but for the all mankind