I haven't quoted you in full so I don't take more bandwidth than necessary but be assured I have read your entire post.
Thanks for at least taking the time to read the post.
What do you think, the massacres of 1947 were done only by the evil Hindus and Sikhs,
I was being kashmir specific and showing how the state was involved in the killings and it was not just spontaneous riots.
while your Muslim ancestors were pure as the driven snow? Have you bothered to read how Hindus and Sikhs were slaughtered in Pakistan and how some of them flooded the Jammu region trying to escape?
I am not blind that i dont not recognize that muslim also committed killings against hindus during the partition but the kashmir issue is slightly different......the partition killings where done by the mob and where overall not backed by the state which was not the case in kashmir.
The 1947 carnage left several Muslim majority populated villages in Jammu district alone totally Hindu or Sikh populated. In Jammu district alone, which is a part of the larger Jammu province, Muslims numbered 158,630 and comprised 37 per cent of the total population of 428,719 in the year 1941. In the year 1961, Muslims numbered only 51,693 and comprised only 10 per cent of the total population of 516,932. The decrease in the number of Muslims in Jammu district alone was over 100,000. That there was a design to change the demographics.
It's easy to create a narrative where the other guy is the portrait of kaffir evil, while you and yours are the guardians of some mythical Islamic virtue.
Where do i mention "kaffirs" or go on about "Islamic virtue"?
It is harder to acknowledge that both sides had their fair share of murders, robbers and rapists.
I for one have never said that muslims carried out no killings-rapes-robberies during the partition and it was just hindus.....am not delusional.
But thats not the point,the point is about kashmir and how most indians do not know anything about the killings carried out by the Dogra army and how the indian army crossed into kashmir before a single pak army-tribesman croosed into kashmir to help the kashmir forces near poonch.The "tribal invasion" story is all you guys know about and base everything from that point.
Its a bit like me not mentioning anything about OBL and 9-11 and starting the story from "US INVADES AFGHANISTAN"..........you guys love to leave out the back story and start from a point that makes you look like the good guys.
So before you speak of 'real timelines' it is necessary to let go of prejudices and understand simply that it takes two hands to clap.
Am taking you probably didnt know about the dogra murders and the indian army crossing into kashmir before a single pakistan had crossed the border to help the kashmiris....the indian history books and media forget to mention them.
What is there to understand?......partition was based on muslim majority areas going to pakistan and hindu areas going to india and under that simple rule it is without a shadow of a doubt that kashmir should go to pakistan.
That was not enough so you invaded and then Nehru himself asked the UN to come in and sort the issue out with a promise to hold a vote under the UN where the people of kashmir would get there wishes.
So trying to equate this the "two hands clapping" theory while trying to chop my arm off and then ask the impossible will not work.
Its the indian prejudices that are the problem.
