[razoroccam]

You are correct about this being the worst debacle - at least 2 million Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims died. The blame, and there is plenty to go around, goes to the British who did not foresee the communal forces being unleashed, to Nehru who put his ambition above his country, and to Gandhi who, lost in a self-delusional grandness and naivete, subjected India to such a brutal outcome. If Gandhi was truly a Mahatma, he would have the guts to tell the British and Nehru to keep India in its empire rather than divide it. But then, he wasn't truly a Mahatma and his threats of "over my dead body" proved more hot air than reality

[ARridgerunner]

If Gandhi was truly a Mahatma, he would have the guts to tell the British and Nehru to keep India in its empire rather than divide it.

Something about this triad's history the world should not be willing to ignore, but it does.

(Jinnah was stronger than Gandhi, Nehru, and the British all combined.)