There are a large number of authentic history books written by unbiased writers who have narrated the history of the Indian continent before and after the Partition in true perspective. In contrast, all the history books written by Hindu writers are biased and distorted.
- The author Brigadier (Retd.) Asif Haroon Raja, is a retired Brigadier General, war veteran, defence and security analyst, columnist, author of five books, ex-chairman TFP, Patron-in-chief CDS Think Tank, and takes part in TV talk shows.
- *The views and opinions expressed herein, and any references, are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of the Centre for Development and Stability (CDS).
They have cleverly blanked the good deeds of the Muslim rulers and have painted them in black. The Muslim invaders were depicted as idol breakers and plunderers, who destroyed the peace and serenity of India.
This colouring of history is an ongoing phenomena in India, and this trend was adopted by Bangladesh during the rules of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and her daughter Hasina Wajid. Sirajuddaula was projected as a villain and Mir Jaffar as a hero. Sheikh Mujib was presented as a hero and Gen Yahya the villain of peace and a monster.
The Hindus including the Brahmans had served all the Muslim Sultans and kings loyally and obediently during the more than 700 years Muslim rule of India.
The rulers treated them justly and benignly and the high caste Hindus were respected and given important portfolios. They never resorted to forced conversions. The outcome of this benign policy was that at the time of the Partition in 1947, the Muslims were only 22% and the rest Hindus and other sects.
The British who seized power from the Muslims, made the Hindus as their natural allies and both persecuted the Muslims.
After the 1857 war of independence, the British preferred soldiers from the Potohar belt , the Pashtun belt, the Sikhs and the Gurkhas.
In the wake of the Quit India movement launched by Mohandas Gandhi, the Hindus refused to take part in the 2nd World War. A majority of the soldiers who took part in the war were the Muslims.
The draconic rule of the Congress Govt from 1937 to 1939, during which all-out efforts were made towards Hinduisation and marginalisation of the largest minority of the Muslims, led to parting of ways.
The Congress resigned in 1939, which proved to be a blessing in disguise for the divided All India Muslim League, enabling Quaid-e Azam to galvanise and unite the Muslims, and to bring them on one platform. The 1940 resolution at Lahore paved the way for the creation of Pakistan.
Spurning of the 1946 Cabinet Mission concept of Groupings for the next ten years by the haughty Congress, buried the last chance of keeping India united. It was another blessing in disguise because MA Jinnah suffering from fatal TB, passed away one year after the birth of Pakistan.
India had grudgingly agreed to divide India hoping that Pakistan will crumble within six months of its birth. Creation of Pakistan was a miracle of the 20th century. Without the towering personality of Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, creation of Pakistan was not possible.
The seculars draw strength from the Quaid e Azam’s 11 Aug speech and based on this speech, the Quaid has been pulled in two different directions by the seculars and the Islamists. Nowhere in the speech, the word secularism was mentioned. The arguments of the seculars start and end on that speech.
The 1949 Objectives Resolution was the manifestation of the Quaid’s vision. It was sabotaged by the seculars and led to a permanent secular – Islamic divide.
In his 11th Aug speech, what he meant was that the religious and other basic rights of all the minorities living in Pakistan would be protected. This is what was preached by Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H and inscribed in the holy book.
One of the reasons for highlighting this aspect was the unspeakable brutalities committed by the RSS goons and the Sikh Jathas against the migrating Muslims. It was an organised massacre committed under the watch of the Indian Congress as well as the British, because no effort was made to rein in the predators. Partition was viewed by the Hindu bigots as the vivisection of Mahabharata.
It was only because of the belated backlash in certain parts of Pakistan that the madness slowed down. One of the purposes of the 11 Aug speech was to cool down the vendetta of Bharat.
Quaid e Azam was the greatest leader of his time and after the Holy Prophet Muhammad pbuh, it is MA Jinnah who was praised the most by the world leaders and notables.
He had dwarfed all the Indian leaders because of his power of expression, honesty, sincerity, uprightness, selflessness and devotedness to the cause. He created Pakistan without firing a single bullet.
He accepted the moth-eaten Pakistan with a heavy heart, and ignoring India’s intrigues and conspiracies, he offered a hand of friendship to India.
All his successors did the same, but each time India rejected it, since it had evil designs.
Coming to India, its secularism and democracy were a farce right from day one. How can there be secularism and democracy in India where there is a four-fold caste system, in which 2.8% Brahmans are the chosen people to rule infinitely?
A great majority of Hindus come in the 4th category called Dalits. They were later on, renamed as scheduled castes. They are treated worse than dogs.
While the Congress preached soft Hindutva, the RSS, Sangh Parivar consisting of four extremist Hindu groups, and the BJP, which is the political face of RSS, preach hard Hindutva.
The Hindutva ideology doesn’t give political space and rights to the minorities. The most persecuted are the Indian Muslims and the Sikhs. It is owing to cruel policies of the State that there are 37 insurgencies, of which 18 are separatist movements in all parts of India.
Not a single insurgency or a separatist movement has been quelled despite deploying 15 lacs security forces. In Indian illegally occupied Kashmir, 11 lac forces are deployed.
The concept of Hindu Rajya or Raam Raj was first introduced by the RSS in 1925, and was followed up by the so-called prophet of peace Mahatma Gandhi and Hindu Mahasba.
As against the agreed upon Jun 3, 1947 plan, Nehru and the hardliners of the Congress and the Sikhs under Master Tara Singh bisected Punjab and Bengal into two, and grabbed certain critical areas of West Punjab, including Gurdaspur, which gave India access to Kashmir.
India gobbled up all the 562 Princely States, including the ones wanting to join Pakistan, and even forcibly annexed two-thirds Kashmir.
The conniving British Viceroy Mountbatten looked the other way. He and Radcliffe were responsible for the unjust Boundary Award and for leaving Kashmir as an unfinished agenda of the Partition.
India’s lust for expansion was insatiable and it captured Diu, the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, Sikkim. The process of converting autonomous States into Indian Union Territories and States continued till the 1970s.
India created Bangladesh in 1972 by subverting the minds of Bengalis and winning over a traitor Sheikh Mujib. It is using the same techniques and methodology to subvert the minds of old and new Sindhis in Sindh, Balochis, Seraikis, Pashtuns, Gilgitis and Kashmiris in AJK.
India has disputes with all its seven neighbours and RAW is engaged in covert operations in the whole of South Asia.
RAW aligned with Mossad has now spread its fangs to Iran, Middle East, Europe, Canada and the US. RAW’s espionage network was recently busted in Iran and in Qatar. A majority of Indian diaspora in foreign countries are involved in spying.
Out of all the self-created issues of India, Pakistan troubles India the most. It spends most of its time and resources in destabilising Pakistan through proxy war and hybrid war. The reason for its animosity is that Pakistan refuses to accept India’s hegemony in South Asia and to act like India’s vassal state.
India waged three major wars in 1948, 1965 and 1971, and several conflicts to intimidate Pakistan, but failed to overawe Pakistan.
After Pakistan’s nuclearisation in 1998, India lost its ascendency in nuclear power, as well as the option of a direct war. Hence, it resorted to an indirect strategy of proxy war and kept enhancing its conventional power.
After weakening Pakistan internally by stoking political instability and intensifying proxy wars in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan, India once again committed the folly of attacking nuclear power on the night of 6 May 2025, hoping that it would achieve its objectives at the conventional level. It had coopted Israel, which provided two types of armed drones and technical expertise.
India was taken by surprise and was shocked when Pakistan responded fiercely, shooting down seven high profile jets including four Rafael jets, destroying two S-400 air defence batteries, Brahmo missiles storage depot, Bde HQ, supply depots, several airbases , capturing two enclaves in IOK , and forcing India to beg for a ceasefire on 10 May.
The victory enabled Pakistan to neutralise India’s conventional superiority and to become a formidable power of South Asia.
Pakistan has earned the reputation of being a net security stabiliser in the region and its outreach has now extended to the Middle East for the first time.
Pakistan and its armed forces are being applauded by the world leaders including the USA, China and Russia. Owing to its high esteem, Pakistani PM Shahbaz Sharif was included in the exclusive team of 8-member Arab-Muslim leaders who met Donald Trump to approve the 20 point peace plan for Gaza. FM Asim Munir was accorded a special welcome by Trump.
India has traditionally believed in the policy of lies, deceit and fakery. It believes in myths and notions and considers it the successor state of the British empire. The current fascist regime led by Modi aspires for the mythical Akhand Bharat. It achieves its wooly dreams through the media and Bollywood.
After the comprehensive defeat in the four-day war, which was started by India without any provocation, Modi is fuming with rage. He is huffing and puffing, and is desperate to go for another misadventure. He has unilaterally suspended the Indus Water Treaty and arrogantly stated that he will deprive Pakistan of a single drop of water. His jingoism is unbounded.
For the sake of winning elections in Bihar, he is prepared to push the two countries into a nuclear holocaust.
Despite his senseless war mongering , Pakistan has once again asked India to sit and hold talks to find solutions to the core issues, including the most burning issue of Kashmir. Without an amicable resolution of the Kashmir dispute, there can be no peace.
In its bid to compensate for the loss of patronage of the USA, which it has been enjoying for the last 35 years, Modi is striving to build a strategic partnership with China and Russia.
The two strategically aligned communist powers have their own set of global ambitions, but their emphasis is on peace, and not on wars and covert operations and regime changes.
India doesn’t fit into their security paradigm because of its hegemonic and expansionist designs and its shifting loyalties. They will welcome China as an economic partner to promote trade and business, but not as a military partner to form a block against Pakistan. India-USA partnership is 35 years old, and that of China-Pakistan is 65 years old, which has morphed into iron brotherhood.
China and Russia are aware that sooner than later, India will again fall back into the lap of the USA, since it is heavily indebted for all endowments bestowed upon it and making it the strongest power of South Asia. No other country can provide such a concrete security guarantee, a massive economic market and an effective diplomatic cover.
India will have to settle the border and LAC disputes with China in the Himalayas and in Kashmir, give up its hostility against CPEC, and opt out of QUAD to earn the goodwill of China. The hardliners in India will never allow Modi to give these concessions, due to which Modi is in a quandary.
