The reasons why Pakistan hates India can be termed as
diverse. The reason I will choose to highlight the most will be an
ill-planned and executed partition, egoist religious differences and a
straight lack of political insight.
Pakistan as a country came into existence from shrewd British diplomatic measures and the lack of foresight among both the contemporary Indian and Muslim politicians at the time of Independence. The partition should never have been accepted. Sadly, India wanted freedom as soon as possible from the British, and for the Muslim politicians of the day, it was the only chance of fame, glory, power and wealth. The partition thus happened displacing millions to each side of the border, and sadly this was accompanied by much shock and stigma that lead to unnecessary blood-shed and bitter scars among the populaces, the scars of which run till today.
By the time of partition, the INDIAN identity was lost and it was subdivided into a distinct MUSLIM and HINDU identities. And when a secular society runs on religious lines with fanatics fanning the flames, tensions and egos are bound to clash. That happened at all its glory and very much persists till date.
Post-independence, Pakistani leaders and populace had a hope that with freedom, the situation there will improve and prosperity will be enormous. Both India and Pakistan grew similarly from that stage. But the twist came that with abundant geographical proportions and population, combined with objective assistance of the Soviets, India made a slow but steady improvement, retaining its secular identity. Pakistani population, who had a secular identity before these events, now rapidly acquired an Islamic identity. It became an Islamic nation because of the whims of its rulers. The populace there had already became a cattle when they lacked the wisdom to identify the motives of the Muslim League, prior to partition. Suddenly, Pakistan realises its mistake to seperate from its erstwhile Indian identity. It perceives an existentialist threat from India along with the constant threat of Balkanization.
Another reason for Pakistan to go seperate was the hope that as a Muslim and Islamic state, it will forge better ties with the Middle-East, to be accepted as one of them.
Yet another reason will be the lack of political insight by Pakistan. Pakistan after independence always hoped to be the new leader to the Muslim world.
Thus, inspite of all the Indo-Pakistan rivalry on the world stage and the conflict over Kashmir, most of the world including the Muslim world sees India as a country with the third highest Muslim population in the world, that offers opportunities of economic benefits and not as the HINDU INDIA that can be marginalized for Pakistan's sake.
Hence, the reason Pakistan hates India is because of its own inferiority complex, its own illogical perceived threat of existentialism from a Hindu country, its social and economic collapse with India fast rising and shining, its inability to secure Kashmir for itself, its inability to marginalize India on the world platform and its degradation in the international and Asian community.
NOW:
Why did Churchill hate India?
"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion"
-Entry dated to September 1942 on a conversation held with Churchill in Leo Amery : Diaries.
This is just one of the many anti-India remarks by the man so revered by the British. What was the reason for this hatred?
Churchill may have been an imperialist and a racist, but he was a very intelligent man. He knew that if India were to gain independence, other colonies of Britain would also demand independence.
He was right, wasn't he? Taking inspiration from India's struggle for independence the following countries were liberated.
Ghana(1957)
Cyrenaica(1949)
Libya(1951)
Uganda(1962)
Kenya(1963)
Thus, he knew that the most crucial thing to do to save the empire and preserve the British status as a superpower, he had to crush the Indian independence movement.
Lastly, Indians were very superstitious, corrupt, and easy for the British to turn against one another, which might have led him to think of them as stupid. This assessment would only be reinforced by the fact that they followed a bald toothless man, dressed like a beggar, whose grand plan was to gain independence and then completely reject the modern world, so we could return India to its villages and rely solely on hand made goods.
As if to prove him right, we didn't even pause for a moment to celebrate the British departure but proceeded immediately to slaughter half a million of our own and displace 14 million more. That was a pretty beastly thing to do.
It's also sad, looking at the above list of less than desirable traits, to see how many of them still exist in India to this very day. Perhaps, given the landscape of religious riots and caste based voting, we should first ask why Indians hate each other so much?
Pakistan as a country came into existence from shrewd British diplomatic measures and the lack of foresight among both the contemporary Indian and Muslim politicians at the time of Independence. The partition should never have been accepted. Sadly, India wanted freedom as soon as possible from the British, and for the Muslim politicians of the day, it was the only chance of fame, glory, power and wealth. The partition thus happened displacing millions to each side of the border, and sadly this was accompanied by much shock and stigma that lead to unnecessary blood-shed and bitter scars among the populaces, the scars of which run till today.
By the time of partition, the INDIAN identity was lost and it was subdivided into a distinct MUSLIM and HINDU identities. And when a secular society runs on religious lines with fanatics fanning the flames, tensions and egos are bound to clash. That happened at all its glory and very much persists till date.
Post-independence, Pakistani leaders and populace had a hope that with freedom, the situation there will improve and prosperity will be enormous. Both India and Pakistan grew similarly from that stage. But the twist came that with abundant geographical proportions and population, combined with objective assistance of the Soviets, India made a slow but steady improvement, retaining its secular identity. Pakistani population, who had a secular identity before these events, now rapidly acquired an Islamic identity. It became an Islamic nation because of the whims of its rulers. The populace there had already became a cattle when they lacked the wisdom to identify the motives of the Muslim League, prior to partition. Suddenly, Pakistan realises its mistake to seperate from its erstwhile Indian identity. It perceives an existentialist threat from India along with the constant threat of Balkanization.
Another reason for Pakistan to go seperate was the hope that as a Muslim and Islamic state, it will forge better ties with the Middle-East, to be accepted as one of them.
Yet another reason will be the lack of political insight by Pakistan. Pakistan after independence always hoped to be the new leader to the Muslim world.
Thus, inspite of all the Indo-Pakistan rivalry on the world stage and the conflict over Kashmir, most of the world including the Muslim world sees India as a country with the third highest Muslim population in the world, that offers opportunities of economic benefits and not as the HINDU INDIA that can be marginalized for Pakistan's sake.
Hence, the reason Pakistan hates India is because of its own inferiority complex, its own illogical perceived threat of existentialism from a Hindu country, its social and economic collapse with India fast rising and shining, its inability to secure Kashmir for itself, its inability to marginalize India on the world platform and its degradation in the international and Asian community.
NOW:
Why did Churchill hate India?
"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion"
-Entry dated to September 1942 on a conversation held with Churchill in Leo Amery : Diaries.
This is just one of the many anti-India remarks by the man so revered by the British. What was the reason for this hatred?
Churchill may have been an imperialist and a racist, but he was a very intelligent man. He knew that if India were to gain independence, other colonies of Britain would also demand independence.
He was right, wasn't he? Taking inspiration from India's struggle for independence the following countries were liberated.
Ghana(1957)
Cyrenaica(1949)
Libya(1951)
Uganda(1962)
Kenya(1963)
Thus, he knew that the most crucial thing to do to save the empire and preserve the British status as a superpower, he had to crush the Indian independence movement.
Lastly, Indians were very superstitious, corrupt, and easy for the British to turn against one another, which might have led him to think of them as stupid. This assessment would only be reinforced by the fact that they followed a bald toothless man, dressed like a beggar, whose grand plan was to gain independence and then completely reject the modern world, so we could return India to its villages and rely solely on hand made goods.
As if to prove him right, we didn't even pause for a moment to celebrate the British departure but proceeded immediately to slaughter half a million of our own and displace 14 million more. That was a pretty beastly thing to do.
It's also sad, looking at the above list of less than desirable traits, to see how many of them still exist in India to this very day. Perhaps, given the landscape of religious riots and caste based voting, we should first ask why Indians hate each other so much?
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