All-India Muslim League
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The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947
X.T.M argues that India’s central trauma is Partition rather than diversity, framing it as a failure of two elites to share power. He says most Muslims stayed after the League’s…
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Did the Muslim League and RSS Want the Same Thing?
X.T.M asks whether the Muslim League’s demand for a Muslim-majority Pakistan differs in kind from the RSS wanting a Hindu-majority India, arguing both rejected a shared national project and that…
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Hooray to the ceasefire
Argues that Partition came from elite insecurity and ideological maximalism, not mass demand, with the Muslim League and the RSS as mirror movements, and that its cost fell on ordinary…
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Indian Muslims and the partition vote
Contributor Yajnavalkya (@saiarav) uses 1946 election and franchise data to argue that the Muslim League’s mandate was not just the voice of a small electorate, and that roughly 40% of…
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A Quick Question- when did Hindus revenge themselves?
The author asks when before 1947 Hindus or Sikhs took revenge on Muslims in mass violence comparable to Direct Action Day, to test whether the Muslim League’s fear of Hindu-majority…
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How Pakistan Got Divided
Major Amin reviews General Rao Farman Ali’s How Pakistan Got Divided and finds it another disappointing book that whitewashes the real causes of 1971. He argues ethnicity was decisive, tracing…
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Vultures of Calcutta take Direct Action
Presenting photographs of Kolkata in August 1946, the post notes that every community accused of excess pleads amnesia, that no one has been held at fault for the Great Calcutta…
