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Did you know there were five partitions in South Asia, not just one?

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In his book Midnight's Descendants, John Keay begins with Partition.

He writes that on the eastern side, Malda was meant to go to East Pakistan — it had a Muslim majority. But for the sake of geography, it ended up in India. In return, India gave away Sylhet to Pakistan — even though Sylhet was mostly Hindu. People there felt betrayed. They had raised the Tiranga on 15th August.

Today, after the Delhi Police controversy, we’re asking whether Sylheti is a Bangladeshi language. But the real question is — why is Sylhet in Bangladesh?

So much for forgetting Partition.

Join me and Sam Dalrymple as we talk about these forgotten histories.

Sam recently wrote a history of Partition. He says India wasn’t partitioned once, but five times — from 1937 to 1971. In those 35 years, one British Indian empire broke into not less than 12 independent countries.

Nikhil

Durga. Kali. Chandika.

https://youtu.be/o-BM7i6wSS8

Enough is enough.

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At LevelUp IAS, today we had a great bhet with Anil Swarup sir. He is a 1981 batch IAS of UP cadre.

He had a great tenure as Secretary with two prime ministers: Manmohan Singh and then Modi.

After retirement, he has written 4 books including one on ethical dilemma of civil servants. His 5th book is coming the day after tomorrow, its on How to Make it Happen.

We will publish the podcast on YT soon. It was highly relevant to the aspirants. Stay tuned.

https://youtu.be/ZwQWtCLE40A?si=tYQInw4I4g0TEbqs

Pravin Swamy has come up with a tantalizing hypothesis to explain why Trump and Munir are coming so close and India is now out of favour. Its because America wants to outsource security of Middle East (West Asia) to Pakistan to cut costs and save American lives. And Pakistani military seems interested in this business.

But we should not forget that Indian subcontinent has been a provider of manpower for many centuries now.

Indentured labour to build railways in Africa, plantation in Fiji, soldiers to die in the two World Wars, cheap labour in Gulf countries today, doctors in Europe, coders in Silicon valley, Farmers in Italy, drivers in Canada, and nurses in Japan.

If Trump now wants to use expendable Paki soldiers to die in the West Asia while he saves America lives, its nothing new. That is how the world has used Indian subcontinent. That has been the biggest export item.

Always.

Nikhil

On this day today, India was partitioned 78 years ago. But it was not the only partition of India.

India was partitioned five times, from 1937 till 1971. From one British Indian Empire, there emerged 12 nations. Literally, 12 different sovereign nations...!

This is a short clip of a great conversation I recently had with Sam Dalrymple on this.

https://youtu.be/8Sk57_xmL0A

Watch till the end. With passing time, it keeps getting more and more interesting.

I am sure you all will agree with me....:)

https://youtu.be/cahKcDOtkEY

Finally, the episode on the Partition is here. It was based on discussion with Sam Dalrymple on his recent book on India's partitions.

This is a part of a new series of podcasts called Akhyan Diaries. Herein, we bring to you those historians whose work is relevant to the UPSC CSE syllabus (GS as well as optional). The discussions will enrich our understanding of History in general but also for UPSC CSE in particular.

In this episode, you will be surprised to know that how large India was, how it was partitioned multiple times, how the idea of Akhand Bharat sometimes supported the partition of India, how Mountbatten was actually pro-India during Partition, what was the role of bureaucrats and, how Patel's decisions were seen as pro-right wing by the author. These and many more... seriously mind-boggling insights.

Enjoy,
Nikhil

https://youtu.be/Y3lp0LSAUXo