CONSEQUENCES Of PARTITION

a) The due date for the partitioning led to massive intercommunal violence between Sihks, Muslims, and Hindu. The deplorable honour killing of women in order to evade their being dishonoured was widespread. Lahora was the sight of war torn conflict. This city continues to suffer as it’s cosmopolitan traditions have vanished. The India dynasties were consolidated into India.
b) the lack of preparation for mass migration: Britain completely abdicated itself of all blame for the partition crisis. Cyril Radcliff knew that his actions would have caused the lost of human life: but Radcliff had no option and no alternative. His decisions – although made to be sound rational ones – resulted in mass killings. Muslim Sihk violence was the most intense in Punjab. Britain did not have enough troops to prevent that massive genocidal conflict. Britain’s transference of power was too quick.
c) the enforcement of Partition in Punjab against people’s will: the massive population shifts were an atrocious consequence of Partition.
d) the decline of Lahore and Pakistan as a result of Partition: Lahore was given to Pakistan by Mountbatten’s partition plan. This sectioning off of regions led to massive migration. Some were subject to armed bands on the road to their new homelands. Such migrations are target of violent clashes. Lahore, having been sectioned to Pakistan, became culturally homogenous; the collapse of a liberal, tolerant, and cosmopolitan urban centre has led to a conservative and pseudo uni-religious society.