The seeds of partition were not sowed by any Muslim leader but by Lala Lajpat Rai whom Tara Chand calls ‘A hypersensitive Hindu Stalwart’
The text below is taken from page 110 of ‘History of the freedom movement in India’ by Tara Chand, published by the ministry of Information and
broadcasting, Govt. of India.
Lajpat Rai’s solution was given in the words: “ My suggestion is that Punjab should be partitioned into two provinces, the Western Punjab, with a large Muslim majority to be a Muslim governed province and the Eastern Punjab with a large Hindu-Sikh majority to be non-Muslim governed province…. I will not make the same suggestion in their (Bengalis) case, but if Bengal is prepared to accept Mr Das’s Pact, I have nothing to say. Under my scheme, the Muslims will have four Muslim states, (1) The Pathan province or North-West frontier, (2) Western Punjab, (3) Sind and (4) Eastern Bengal”.
The partition of India was not the product of the fertile imagination of Muslim undergraduates of Cambridge University, not even poet Iqbal’s fancy, but the brain-child of a hypersensitive Hindu stalwart.