“Our children deserve to know the truth about partition, but their textbooks ensure they don’t”, Swarajyamag, August 14, 2023:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. The significance of this oft repeated George Santayana quote is either lost on our educationists or they have their peculiar understanding of “significance” which must associate with Indian history.
There isn’t a more horrifying chapter to draw lessons from in our recent past than the partition of India. In the words of famous Pakistani historian Ayesha Jalal, the Partition was “the central historical event in twentieth century South Asia”.
Scholars estimate around one to two million dead and 15 million displaced, in one of the greatest migrations on Earth. The barbarity and scale of violence has rightly been compared to the Holocaust. Going into accounts of the savagery, even fleetingly, is so painful that it is best avoided unless absolutely required to make a point. I am avoiding it here…..”
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