why did Gandhiji accept the partition of India
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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...
Gandhiji accepted the partition of India because:-
- Gandhi asserted that the decision had been reached after taking into report the rate of the people of all communities, be they Muslims, Sikhs or Hindus.
- He said that the demand had been granted because the people of India asked for it and that Congress never want it. But Congress could feel the vibration of the people. It felt that the Khalsa as also the Hindus asked for it.
- The confidence in India and Pakistan being reunited after some years restrained leaders to the truth of division.
- The intention was that once fascinations receded, common interests would draw people together and partition could be abolished.
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