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AngloSikhPeace ji

Would you help by being more specific? How did Sikhs contribute to the madness of dividing up India? My own take on this is - Once Sikhs realized that a land grab was in play, Sikhs made their own appeal for an independent Punjab. That kind of political response is not unusual when matters of nationhood are being negotiated, even today. The Sikh claim was unacceptable to the power brokers named in your essay. Sikhs were put off during the dialog with many different kinds of promises of autonomy and home-rule which were never honored, and were probably never intended to be honored. So shedding light on specifics would be helpful to me.

The philosophical ideal of seeing the human race as one had already been disfigured during this moment in history. What could Sikhs have done once it was clear that the historical claims of Sikhs and the fundamental political rights of Sikhs were certainly being side-lined? Nonetheless, Sikhs were patient through all the years when they were handed a bill of fake goods.

Just my thoughts and I stand to be educated in this regard. The partition is not an area where I am fully informed.