History Recap / DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab

* AnAesop: Religious tensions always existed in India, but the Partition inflamed them beyond bearing.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Blaming the British government for Partition is simplifying a rather complex historical moment, since the real driving force behind it was the separatist All-Indian Muslim League led by Muhammed bin Jinnah, and the Indian Congress had agreed to it due to his intransigence. Lord Mountbatten, the British official overseeing the transition to Indian independence, was actually reluctant to agree to Partition and only did so because Jinnah insisted on it regardless of any other argument, and later said he would have refused if he'd know that Jinnah was secretly sick and dying; the Muslim League, for their part, had concerns about being a religious minority in a country dominated by Hindus, and the violence that erupted had as much to do with ethnic and religious tensions going back centuries as anything else, and possibly might still have occurred in some form even if the British had refused to go along with Partition, and many members of the Congress and the League didn't think the British, a departing colonial power, should have even had a say in this issue in the first place. The British do shoulder some of the blame for the violence that erupted due to their imposing a very hasty and disorganized forced relocation when enforcing Partition due to wanting to exit the now independent Indian subcontinent as quickly as possible, as well as having stoked Hindu-Muslim religious tensions during colonial times to ensure power over the then-colonized South Asians, but it's not quite accurate to give them ''all'' of the blame for what happened.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Blaming the British government for Partition is simplifying a rather complex historical moment, since the real driving force behind it was the separatist All-Indian Muslim League led by Muhammed bin Jinnah, and the Indian Congress had agreed to it due to his intransigence. Lord Mountbatten, the British official overseeing the transition to Indian independence, was actually reluctant to agree to Partition and only did so because Jinnah insisted on it regardless of any other argument, and later said he would have refused if he'd know that Jinnah was secretly sick and dying; the Muslim League, for their part, had concerns about being a religious minority in a country dominated by Hindus, and the violence that erupted had as much to do with ethnic and religious tensions going back centuries as anything else, and possibly might still have occurred in some form even if the British had refused to go along with Partition, and many members of the Congress and the League didn't think the British, a departing colonial power, should have even had a say in this issue in the first place. The British do shoulder some of the blame for the violence that erupted due to their imposing a very hasty and disorganized forced relocation due to wanting to exit the now independent Indian subcontinent as quickly as possible, as well as having stoked Hindu-Muslim religious tensions during colonial times to ensure power over the then-colonized South Asians.