Fateful Events of 1947

by M. N. Das

-1947 saw the demise of the Bristish Indian Empire and the emergence of India as an independent country. It also witnessed dubious endeavour on part of the departing rulers in partitioning a sub-continent into India and Pakistan. Side by side their deliberate game to balkanise India by keeping some princely states independent was too obvious.The year was full of fateful events since the surgery of separation was an unusual phenomenon causing immense blood letting. Compressed between the natural demand for national unity and an artifically engineered two nation theory the desperate British went in for a comprehensive conspiracy to take advantage of the continuing communal civil war for achieving their sinister design of Divine and Quit.