• forty2@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        31
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Don’t worry, I know it’s a sensitive question and I’m not saying it’s a shit one.

        I was saying a couple of things at once.

        1. It’s basically what the British were thinking/doing
        2. It takes a certain size of iron balls to ask Indians/Pakistanis a question like this
        • clutchmatic@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          I’ve seen both indians and Pakistanis complain about how it was done but they also admit there was no way to do it cleanly and the religious differences would eventually spill over politics and cause the territory of India/Pakistan to be as unstable as the middle east

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        It’s a legit answer. Sounds like their answer is yes it was a mistake, and the implied thing to be done instead is to leave it alone

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    It isn’t clear that Britain’s carving up other peoples’ countries to make new ones ever worked out. Why would this be any different?

  • rotmulaaginskyrim
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    At the very least, they should have separated Pakistan and Bangladesh from the very beginning.

  • blahsay@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Lots of deaths leading up to it. Lots of deaths during partition. Not so many deaths since.

    Slightly better than a civil war given how messy they tend to be probably.

    Sometimes there’s no good options (without a time machine for killing pedos 😉)

  • Throwaway@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    Nothing wpuld have made it better. Best thing would have been leaving them alone, that way when they fought, the UK wouldnt be blamed.

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      lmao after 400 years of brutal subjugation, destruction of local industry and colonialism, the UK was going to get blamed for it anyway, as they should be.

    • forty2@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      The universe handed you a golden opportunity to blame-Meta, and you…dropped the ball. 😉