> a. Why did Lord Mountbatten go on a aggressive schedule and conclude the partition ahead of time? answer: he thought the bloodshed could be evn worse if things are postponed
> b. Why was Sir Cyril Radcliff given just 36 days to draw the dividing line? ans: same as above, he was well insulated and even mountbaten had no access to him in those 36 days
> c. Was division of Punjab the costliest human error? it was not an error by itself but the method of work done on that issue was rather haphazard, as you have seen in the film
> d. Why did the Mahatma not go on an appeal with to the people, rather than with politicians on the division?
no idea > e. Did the congress have enough presence in North West Frontier? Where the people from the well represented?
that was not possible the demography does not allow such possibility > f. Similarly the territories of the Eastern India? > g. The borders with Burma, Afghanistan (Tibet, bhutan, Nepal still had their line of control), how where they concluded?
no idea > h. The Provincial rulers did form part of the process of creation of India, where they all represented? Certainly not, we had Heydrabad for example, which did want a separate state. What was their buy-in (not Hyderabad, but in general) ?
true > i. Why was the grass root aspirations never collected by any parties including congress or muslim league? Did they ever want Democracy? Did they want a different form it? there was suppression of news during the world war -2 and hence there was no grass root discussion
> j. The hunger to call the largest democracy (not socialist ), how much of this sentiment play a role in this fracture?
no idea > k. First Muslim Fundamentalist nation was born on a aspiration of a secular lawyer. Did he want it so, what pressures he had to give in to get in the support from the Muslim League?