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You also wanted it. You got it. Be happy. Both Pakistan and Bharat are largely British creations. Both are as "artificial" as each other if that is correct word.
If the British had not come along I am pretty sure history would have played out differantly. Certainly there would have been no 1947 because there would have been no single entitly ruling from Peshawar to Rangoon. There would have been lot's of smaller kingdoms scattered over the region. Whatever it might have been but certainly no 1947 and no single entity - that came about as result of British military prowess and admin efficacy that they tied such huge diseparate tract.
Yes on the aspect of partition I feel surprised how most Indians conveniently forget that the idea of partition was first proposed by Hindu Mahasbha and Bengali "Bhadrolok" middle class of Bengal, so that interests of these dominant groups won't be subdued due to British reforms which allowed Muslims to enter the provincial legislatures. There are also some works by Ayesha Jalal claiming that Jinnah had intended the Lahore Resolution to be used as a "bargaining chip" to gain concessions out of Congress, Gandhi and British, but Jinnah's bluff was called after the League's acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946, which ultimately resulted in Partition and so many deaths of innocents.
I also agree on the small kingdoms aspect but looking at Turkey and Iran in similar circumstances, who knows, by whom the declining Mughal rule would have been replaced. Keep in mind whoever controlled Delhi controlled the so called 'India' or Hindustan of pre-British times (not our India or Pakistan, but Hindustan). The Qajars replaced declining Safavids in Iran. In India there were multiple candidates to take up the role of Qajars. Sikhs of modern day "Pakistan", Marhatas, Rajputs, Nizams, Afghans etc.