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Divide and Rule - Cost of Partition
 Lord
Canning (1812 - 1862) Governor General of India from 1856 - 1862 and
the first Viceroy in India. In the middle of the 1857 uprising, he wrote to a
British official:
“As
we must rule 150 millions of people by a handful (more or less small) of
Englishmen, let us do it in the manner best calculated to leave them divided (as
in religion and national feeling they already are) and to inspire them with the
greatest possible awe of our power and with the least possible suspicion of our
motives.”
(source:
The
Muslims of British India - By P Hardy p. 72). Refer to chapters
on Aryan Invasion Theory
and First
Indologist.
***
 "The institution of separate
electorates for the Muslims was the first expression of the pernicious
two-nation theory, which ultimately resulted in the foundation of Pakistan.
Published documents fully establish the fact that this was created by deliberate
policy as an effective method to keep the Hindus and Muslims apart.
Lady
Minto,
the wife of the Viceroy who was responsible for this piece of political
Machiavellianism, noted with glee that her husband
had by this act ensured for a
long time the authority of the British in India.
The system of separate
electorate was a simple device. It provided that Muslims should be represented
only by Muslims, that no Muslim could represent a Hindu constituency or vice
versa.
By this expedient the Muslims in India from Cape Comorin to Kashmir
became a separate political entity, perpetually at odds with the Hindus and
judging all issues from the point of view of a religious community.
As the
Muslim candidates to the legislatures had to depend on a religious franchise,
their views and policies, came to be molded by considerations of religious
fanaticism. India took over forty years to be rid of this vicious system and
that, too, at the terrible cost of a partition."
(source: Asia
and Western Dominance - By K. M. Panikkar p. 120).
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