Partition of India
I agree with Shafi Ahmed that Mountbatten was no Solomon. But, then, neither was Jinnah. If a central government for a united India couldn't be trusted by Jinnah to look after the interests of the Muslim minority, how could Jinnah expect a single government in Kolkata or Lahore to be trusted by his political rivals to look after the interests of the Hindu and Sikh minorities?
Jinnah had inveighed against the "tyranny of the "majority" to advance the goals of the Muslim League establishment (primarily the aristocrats of the United Provinces and the mercantile class of the Bombay Presidency). It was ironic and apt that Jinnah's Pakistan has had to remain wary of the "majority" ever since it came into being in 1947. First, it was the Hindu-tainted "majority" in East Pakistan that was the enemy. But even after the 1971 partition of Pakistan, Islamabad remains firmly under the "tyranny of the minority", namely, the military, to keep the "majority" at bay.
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