Bitter fruits of British colonialism—India's division in 1947 and expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland for Israel's creation a year later—informed Indian policies towards Palestine until the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rose to power in 2014
Tag: British divide-and-rule policy
Cyril Radcliffe: Lawyer Who Drew Haphazard India-Pakistan Border
Cyril Radcliffe drew the India-Pakistan border weeks after arriving in India for the first time in 1947 without knowing much about the regions he divided haphazardly leaving tens of thousands dead and uprooted