Religious Conflicts and the Partition of India

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Religious Conflicts and the Partition of India
The partition of India refers to a period in history when India and Pakistan, which were once one country, split to become two independent nations. This paper demonstrates how the partition of India caused religious conflicts in the country (Bharadwaj et al.)
In 1947, the British colony eventually left India after 300 years of colonial rule. When this happened, the Muslims moved East and West Pakistan (the former known as Bangladesh) while millions of Sikhs and Hindus headed towards the opposite side. The sub-continent was then divided into two: the Muslim majority that formed Pakistan and the Hindu majority that remained in India. The partition of India resulted from a two-nation theory that was advanced by Syed Ahmed Khan, with the spokesperson for the partition, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The talks mainly focused on the religious differences of the populace of India. There was also another issue for the British: they wanted to leave weaker colonies that they could control even after departure (Talbot).
According to the book British South Asian theatres and the Global South Asian Diaspora: Introduction, the British government bears the blame for the partition of India. This is because Jinnah is believed to be a British agent who bore self-interest while he advocated for the creation of Pakistan. Jinnah had the ambition to be the 'Quaid-e-Azam,' irrespective of the harm his actions would cause to both Muslims and Hindus (Dadswell, Sarah, and Graham 161-163).).
The partition of India led to the biggest, unplanned, most abrupt, and tragic transfer of the human population. As a result of the partition, many people were killed, and millions were displaced. To fuel the partition of India, religions and religious organizations were used to divide people into different religious groups, including Hindu Maha Sabha, established in 1922, and the RSS, established in 1925.
In some states, the violence was organized in conjunction with the rulers. For instance, in the Sikh state (except Kapurthala and Jind), the Maharajas took part in the ethnic cleansing of Muslims. In contrast, other Maharajas, like the Bharatpur, Faridkot, and Patiala, ordered and commanded the armies to act. In fact, it is believed that the ruler of Bhagalpur witnessed the ethnic cleansing of his populace, especially the ones that happened in Deeg (Dadswell, Sarah, and Graham 161-163).
Due to the partition, communities that had earlier co-existed for almost a millennium-long period attacked one another in a spate of violent outbreaks that pitted Muslims on one side and Sikhs and Hindus on the other side of the war. In Bengal and Punjab provinces that lay on the borders of India with East and West Pakistan, respectively, the violence was very intense with arson attacks, massacres, mass abductions, forced conversions, and sexual violence. During that time, almost 75,000 women were raped, and many were dismembered...