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  1. The division and ongoing violence between India and Pakistan was not a "failure" of the British colonialists, but rather precisely the goal. The British empire wanted South Asians divided, so they would be distracted fighting among themselves and would not unite against imperialism. The vast majority of Indian Muslims did not support creating an independent Pakistan in 1947. Partition was supported by the British empire and by the elite landowners of Punjab (the same elite Punjabi landowners who still dominate Pakistani politics to this day). Nehru was a socialist and became a leader of the anti-imperialist Non-Aligned Movement; under Nehru, India had a progressive socialist government that leaned more toward the Soviet Union. Pakistan, on the other hand, was a reactionary, right-wing, theocratic state that would act as a reliable proxy for British and subsequently American imperialism in the region. During the Cold War, Pakistan became a crucial US ally to wage proxy wars against the USSR and its allies (eg, the genocidal US/UK/Pakistani war against the Bangladeshi liberation movement, which was supported by India and the Soviet Union; or the US/Pakistani/Saudi proxy war in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980s). Again, Pakistan's creation was never supported by average, working-class South Asians, including most Muslims. It was a project of elite capitalists and imperialists. And unlike Pakistan, India was not theocratic. Nehru was very clear: India was not a Hindu state; it was a secular state. (It is only now with the rise of the fascist RSS — which supported British colonial rule! — that the Indian government is moving toward abolishing secularism and instituting official Hindu rule.) It's not a coincidence that Pakistan was created, with British colonial support, in the same year that Zionist militias launched a murderous war to establish another theocratic colonial proxy state in the Middle East. Pakistan is the Israel of South Asia. The division between India and Pakistan was not a religious dispute; it was a political and class dispute, supported by British imperialism.
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