Talk:Amar Jaleel

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--- since Amar Jaleel has sponsored this article on himself, I am guessing he reads this... and since Dawn has refused to publish my letters questioning his deliberate distortion of the truth here goes:

Dear Dawn Magazine staff,

For long now, I have been reading your section with amusement as Amar Jaleel peddles his favorite myth of history at the exclusive expense of the genesis of the idea of Pakistan. Week after week, he rails against the Muslim League and its "villainous" role in partition of India. Perhaps this one sided narration of events which sought to make Gandhi and Nehru into global figures at the cost of Pakistan and its antecedents would have been acceptable before the de-classification of the "Transfer of Power Paper" documents but not now.

Since the 1980s enough documents have been declassified to tell the true history of partition. H M Seervai, India's greatest constitutional lawyer, wrote "Partition of India: Legend and Reality" which proves conclusively that the Muslim League bent over backwards to allow for a minimal union but it was Nehru and Gandhi who could not entertain any other constitutional vision of India except that which was acceptable to them. Stanley Wolpert has also written a book recently called "Shameful Flight" which reaffirms that infact it was the Congress Party that wanted a complete partition, while Muslim League was looking for an over all union of India. Infact, Wolpert shows that if anyone was in league with the British, it was the Congress Party. Yet another work "Liberty or Death" by Patrick French makes plain that the leaders of the Congress were in large part responsible for driving the Muslim League away. In this respect, A G Noorani, a columnist in India's famous "The Hindu" newspaper, has also written several pieces which show how and when the final break came.

Furthermore, Amar Jaleel's accusation that it was the Pakistan idea caused the deaths of millions has been pooh poohed by most serious historians, almost all of non-Pakistani origin, as nothing but a myth. The violence at partition happened, because of Congress' insistence on dividing Punjab and Bengal, which was completely opposed by the Muslim League till the end. Declassified documents actually show that Pakistan Government was quite successful in putting down disturbances and that a great majority of those massacred at partition were infact those moving west in Punjab- that was entirely under Congress' watch. Upcoming works by many unbiased and balanced scholars will show that infact Congress leader Patel was directly involved in the massacres in 1947. Therefore, it would be useful if Amar Jaleel atleast does some fact checking before levelling unsubstantiated allegations against an entire mass movement that brought about the country we breathe in and the newspaper he so boldly writes in - even if under a pseudonym.

It is quite ironic that while historians all around the world who have studied partition and South Asian history have now, after the declassification of documents pertaining to that era, reached the consensus on Congress' insidious role in the tragedy which led to the widespread bloodbath in South Asia, our own columnists have taken to distorting history without any sense of fairness or decency.