The Partition of India – Part 2: Two Blind Eyes

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

As the British Raj crumbles, old animosities begin to stir in the subcontinent’s communities. Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru face a formidable new adversary in the form of Muhammed Ali Jinnah, who calls for the creation of a separate Muslim nation - Pakistan. Hindu-Muslim tensions, fueled by political polarization and corrosive rhetoric, explode into sectarian violence during the Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946. Sources: Akbar, M.J. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. 2011. Tharoor, Shashi. Nehru: The Invention of India. 2003. Tharoor, Shashi. Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India. 2017. Khan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. 2007. Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World. 2018. Sarila, Narendra Singh. The Shadow of the Great Game. 2005. Charles Rivers Editors. The Punjab. 2018. Charles Rivers Editors. British India. 2017. Puri, Kavita. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories. 2019. Malhotra, Aanchal. Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects From A Continent Divided. 2017. Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Indian Summer. 2007. Zakaria, Anam. The Footprints of Partition. 2015. Ahmed Akbar. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity. 1997. Urvashi, Butalia. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. 1998. White-Spunner, Barney. Partition. 2017. Lawrence, James. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. 1997. Hamdani, Yasser Latif. Jinnah: A Life. 2020. Fischer, Louis. Gandhi. 1950. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3	Hello and welcome to Conflicted, the history podcast where we talk about the struggles that shaped us, the tough questions that they pose, and why we should care about any of it.
1:09.9	Conflicted is a member of the Evergreen Podcast Network.
1:13.2	And as always, I'm your host, Zach Cornwell.
1:15.9	You are listening to Part 2 of a multi-part series on the Partition of India.
1:21.4	Now, if you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, I'd suggest you hit the pause button and go
1:24.9	ahead and check out that first episode.
1:26.6	We covered some very
1:27.7	important events and met some very important characters and you might rob yourself of some
1:32.2	critical context if you skip it but if you have listened to part one end of empire you are in the
1:38.6	right place however before we dive into the next stage of our story let's take a quick moment to
1:43.6	refresh ourselves
1:44.5	on what we've covered thus far. When we left off last time, the year was 1930, when the all-powerful
1:51.0	British Raj had been dealt a symbolic blow by a 61-year-old man in a loincloth, armed with a
1:57.3	handful of sodium chloride. The climax of our first episode was Mohandis Gandhi's historic salt march, in which he and his
2:05.1	followers walked 241 miles to the coast to collect contraband salt, throwing a punk rock
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