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Author
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Byrappa, Ramachandra 
Availability Date
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2018-06-29T10:45:08Z
Availability Date
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2018-06-29T10:45:08Z
Release
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2017
uri
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http://hdl.handle.net/10831/38398
Language
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angolhu_HU
Title
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The Troubling Interval 1945-1950hu_HU
Type
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folyóiratcikk
Version
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megjelent változathu_HU
Language
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eng
Rights
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ELTE BTK Új- és Jelenkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszékhu_HU
Rights
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szerzőhu_HU
Abstract in English
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As men dressed in impeccable white tweeds and equally impeccable white silks, topi and Shalwar Kamiz2, paraded in the government palaces in New Delhi in 1947, little did one realise that they were planning one of the biggest butcheries in human history. Historians on all sides consciously or unconsciously become part of the blaming game and very interestingly none of them speak of genocide. Most probably to maintain a false sense of respectability to their work or argument. The reality was that two nations were destroyed, Punjab and Bengal. Of the two, Punjab was structurally always kept separate from the 1840s onwards. What happened in 1946 and 1947 was that, the nation within a nation, the Sikh nation was temporarily neutralized at the cost of hundreds of thousands killed and millions scarred for life. The Punjab and Sikh conflict was bound to surface sooner or later because Sikhs, 5% of the population controlling a 95% Muslim population was bound to cause an upheaval, especially in a democratic structure. What was more, the Sikhs were ethnically different from the rest of the population. Here the problem was that a period of peaceful transition was denied, as millions were uprooted within a couple of months of notice. What was even more tragic and by all definition criminal was the systematic destruction of the Bengali nation. Although there were both Hindus and Muslins in this community, both in their big majority were ethnically Bengali. Religion was only a small fraction of their collective identity. Only a few decades earlier a plan by the Brits to divide this nation was crushed because all the Bengalis united behind the integrity of their nation. As historians, what is interesting for us to observe is that even after 1947 this policy continued under Pandit Nehru as Prime Minister. What had started as a plan in the 1840s was in large part completed in the 1940s and 1950s. Whether this was in the interest of the rest of India, it is difficult to say. But what historians can acknowledge is that part of Indian leaders, at the highest level, did participate in the systematic dismantling of the Bengali nation. They are therefore responsible for the bloodshed that resulted directly from their actions.hu_HU
MTMT ID
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3190163
Issue Number
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2hu_HU
abbreviated journal
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ÖKhu_HU
Journal
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Öt Kontinenshu_HU
Last Page
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86hu_HU
First Page
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65hu_HU
Volume Number
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2014hu_HU
access
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hozzáférhetőhu_HU
Keyword English
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Indiahu_HU
Keyword English
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British-Indiahu_HU
Keyword English
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Pakistanhu_HU
Keyword English
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Bengalhu_HU
Keyword English
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Bangladeshhu_HU
Keyword English
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Hinduismhu_HU
Keyword English
dc.subject.en
Congresshu_HU
Keyword English
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Gandhihu_HU
Keyword English
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Bosehu_HU
Keyword English
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Nehruhu_HU
Keyword English
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Vallabahaihu_HU
Keyword English
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Brahmanismhu_HU
Subtitle
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Two states created and two nations destroyed (Part Two)hu_HU
Class
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publikáció/alkotáshu_HU
Type
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tudományoshu_HU
Author
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ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar Történeti Intézet Új- és Jelenkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszékhu_HU
Type
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folyóiratcikkhu_HU
Release Date
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2017hu_HU


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