Why Nehru agreed to partition? (Source: The Last Days of The British Raj by Leonard Mosley)
Nehru (in 1960): โThe truth is that we were tired men, and we were getting on in years too. Few of us could stand the prospect of going to prison againโand if we had stood out for +
Nehru (in 1960): โThe truth is that we were tired men, and we were getting on in years too. Few of us could stand the prospect of going to prison againโand if we had stood out for +
+ a united India as we wished it, prison obviously awaited us. We saw the fires burning in the Punjab and heard every day of the killings. The plan for partition offered a way out and we took it. But if Gandhi had told us not to, we would have gone on fighting, and waiting. +
+ But we accepted. We expected that partition would be temporary, that Pakistan was bound to come back to us. None of us guessed how much the killings and the crisis in Kashmir would embitter relations.โ
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