Historical Analysis of Communal Relations in India After 1947
Abstract
Pakistan and India came in to being on 14th and 15th of august 1947 respectively. Sir Sirel Radcliff was Chairman of Boundary Commission and he intentionally created unsolvable issues between Pakistan and India. Large number of Muslims migrated from India to Pakistan, however huge quantity of Muslims decided to live in India after Partition. But after 1947 there have been several instances of religious violence against Muslims occurred in secular India. Near about 6,933 instances of communal violence between Muslims and Hindus during 1954 and 1982 reported. The causes of these violence’s are assorted. It was resentment toward the Islamic conquest of India during Middle Ages some says. Many scholars believe that incidents of anti-Muslim violence are politically motivated and a part of the electoral strategy of mainstream political parties in India who were associated with Hindu nationalism like BJP and RSS etc. Other scholars believe that the violence in India were the result of local socio-political and religious conditions. However Muslim Hindu Communal clashes have badly hurt the secular state concept of India.
