Pakistan's ancestors, the Muslim dynasties that ruled India for ten centuries (nearly 1000 years), brought culture, scientific information, aesthetics and religious tolerance to India. Even today in India the highest form of speech is one that goes back to Muslim cultural influence. Native Indian dresses and fashion were replaced by the more regal Muslim dressing styles & modern fashion, and the artistic legacy of Islam in India is sealed forever with the Taj Mahal and countless palaces and forts.
In its early years, the Indian subcontinent "cinema and film" identified itself with the dynastic Muslim ruling culture, traditions and most films linked Indian social norms to the Islamic Muslim influence in living, speech, action and style.
The biggest evidence of Islam's tolerance in India is that the region has a majority "Hindu population" today despite nearly 800-1000 years of direct Islamic rule, where Muslim rulers accommodated the subcontinent citizens & refused to forcibly convert them.
Lastly, India was never a single country, it was a subcontinent. You can thank the British rule of 180 years for your independence, and naming it "INDIA" on 1947, otherwise the Indians were still under foreign rule of Islamic Empire for the past 1,000 years. Pakistan don't grudge you the right to live in your land, since you have you culture, traditions,
religious ideology and identity all too separate from us. AND Indian shouldnot grudge us too.
brilliantly put by one of my brothers in the other forum.
