How the British failed India and Pakistan

[@Vox]

Happy Friday! Check out our Atlas episode explaining the conflict in Kashmir here: bit.ly/2CA3kfi

[@c4prantik]

The episode is poorly researched.... Please dont spread misleading info.. You barely scratched the surface.. 1.You didnt explain the water issue(major rivers originate in kashmir and if whoever controls it controls the agriculture down stream) 2. You didnt mwntion Hindu and Buddhist Exodus due to religious violence 3. You didnt mention the Pashtun invasion in the majority Hindu & Buddhist state in british raj and many other issues.. Very dissapointed...

[@petergriff7624]

I think India was already divided under many kings. British actually caused to unite India.

[@capnbarky2682]

@@petergriff7624 imagine all of europe, with all of its myriad cultures and historical beef, is one day visited by a mysterious indian king who claims that the europeans will be lavished with futuristic gifts, education and land, as long as all of europe unites into one easily controllable government and leases all of their natural resources to india. Would you be so keen to look at this as a simple good deed if the roles were changed, i wonder, because this is exactly how india was "united", and im being very generous of the oppressor in this depiction.

[@iambackwithabang]

my grandfather was in the Indian Army(back then the British Indian Army) during the partition period. prior to that and during that period, he was posted mostly in Lahore and parts of present day Pakistan and north India. and he had taken many many photos of pre-partition Lahore and Punjab and Delhi etc and the post-partition Punjab and Lahore and many parts of India. i wonder as an Army officer, if he was first hand witness to the horrors of the grand exodus happening between both the nations. he has taken many images of people travelling on foot and trains between the two nations during the partition. he had bequeathed that precious album of his to me. and it even had images of funeral procession and actual funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. all are posted in a sequential order. i wonder if he pasted those images with a purpose. showing the exodus and its aftermath to his family. but really no one even understood its importance until i grew up and checked out those images closely.coz by now they are old and faded black and white images. sadly my grand dad passed away when i was in 7th standard(i was only 12 yrs back then). else i would have asked him to recount what he saw during that period and what were his duties as an Army Officer and why was he following the exodus of people back to India. there is no one of that period left in my family to recount or recollect what happened and if at all my grandfather ever explained what he had seen. also my own father was an Indian Army Officer who was posted most of his service in Jammu and Kashmir(J&K). his stories definitely belong from the late 1970s onwards till current time. by the time my Dad was posted there, it had already become a norm for terrorist infiltrations and constant mini and major skermishes along the border. the experiences of an Indian Army Officer(grandfather and my father) were totally different within 2 or 3 decades.

[@dayasagarpatil905]

kashmir video is biased.. What about kashmiri pandits and Buddhist? .. Go and research deeply before posting anything on youtube @Vox 😐

[@antonfeng1434]

I once heard a quote: "If you don't know the origin of a particular geopolitical issue in the world, just guess that it is caused by the British. You will still be right half of the time."

[@ravibadola4934]

Once it was said that british's sun never sets, because they were all over the world.

[@manoah007]

@P C you're wrong, countries that were NEVER under the British rule like for an example, Japan, China, Thailand are soaring economically.

[@manoah007]

@P C So, why is Taiwan not recognized as the real China then? Is the US or UK not fully committed in "doing more good than bad" or lets look at the case of the South China Sea

[@manoah007]

@P C No, China during the early 20th Century went under a revolution. Sun Yat-Sen was very pro-democracy, the only problem was that he died too soon. Also Chairman Mao was the one who radicalized the country heavily crippled by the Japanese Imperialists opening the flood gate of modern day communist China as we know it. The island that Sun Yat Sen and his supporters were sent off to is now present-day Taiwan aka The Republic of China. You're so wrong when you say that Taiwan does not what to be China as still to this day, Taiwan says that its the real China.

[@manoah007]

@P C We have a recorded civilization history of about 4000 years and Britain and Western Europe thanks to gun powder that too invented by the Chinese only started really ruling the world after the 1500s and that's relatively not too much of a chunk in history relatively. China was a huge leader of empires, the only thing is that it missed out on the industrial revolution. If we look at the ancient Greeks or the Harrapan valley civilization too, a democratic form was already used and empires were already trading way back then, coins from Mohenjodaro (present-day Pakistan) were even found in ancient Rome proving that trade did exist even way back then. Look at India, Britain's then prized possession, its Divide and Rule policy has left scars so deep that it's not even possible to simply put into a paragraph. Also, it was not long until empires realized that trade was better than going on wars. The West has changed the world with its science that is no doubt but saying that the world has become better thanks to the empire of Britain is false at best.

[@athullal7438]

"The sun never set on the British Empire, because even God couldn't trust the Englishman in the dark" Edit: Quote by Mr. Sasi Tharoor. Didn't add it first coz thought it was quite obvious.

[@Abid0]

Holy shot this is pretty true.

[@shailamkantsahodra9515]

Shashi Tharoor

[@will6412]

sambhavi wow clam down, that is some extreme British hate there.

[@tushargupta4912]

@@sambhavi3130 go get it gurll

[@viz4884]

@Ricky Dicky Not everyone. I love the brits to the core. Have many as my pals. Dont generalize

[@AbhishekVS]

In short, every Brexit has just been badly done.

[@pegeonpera]

lol

[@harshitbatra860]

Lol

[@Muhanddis1]

Finally something an Indian and Pakistani can agree on.

[@MrRedge7]

And a British person

[@jishnuviswanath]

Lol.. Thats most epic comment :)

[@arinsharma52]

The worst part is when they were leaving they taught this strategy to our leaders

[@yogesha4727]

Truer words were never spoken 💯

[@sumedhasaha1268]

This should be the top comment

[@faryalali4709]

On point!

[@omerrrkhnn]

Facts

[@sashab9611]

True the government who India was left with messed us up so bad

[@BarsatKarki]

2 months later... How Britain failed Brexit.

[@msharma3514]

Its karma....what's goes around comes around

[@elbaecc]

I think you mean, how Britain failed Britain via Brexit.

[@537monster]

More accurately “How Britain failed itself...”

[@rahulmalik1083]

If because of brexit , Northern Ireland does a referendum and chooses Ireland instead of being in England , I would die of laughing .

[@elbaecc]

@@rahulmalik1083 The Scots ought to do the same.

[@sdu28]

I recently saw a British (on a news channel) justify their colonial rule in India by saying that it taught the English language to the people. Biggest Facepalm ever!

[@businesshumor8598]

Which news channel?

[@bob69927]

bust me the sauce

[@dustybawls7085]

It was tucker Carlson on fox I think

[@theundiscoveredjourney_]

They just have a single language and we Indians have more than 20+ major languages each spoken by more than 10 million native speakers atleast. And lecturing us about languages.😂

[@saurML]

@@theundiscoveredjourney_ UK also has Welsh (Cymraeg) and Scots alongside English, but ofc their no. of speakers pale in comparison to English, or any Indian language

[@-4subscriberswithahammerad521]

When Great Britain sees a random territory* Britain- it’s free real estate

[@beastmasterbg]

Btw im from the EU who studies in UK and you cant believe on subject of history how arrogantly confident they are because they all think that they did good by invading those cuntries because it gave them democracy which is total bulshit. And also they think they are the best rulers...

[@UnstoppableEmpire]

Hippity hoppity get of my property!

[@charliepattinson6660]

beastmasterbg can’t argue the British empire didn’t accelerate a huge amount of the world into the modern era via industrialisation and globalisation

[@brooklynknite]

@@beastmasterbg I'm not surprised on that statement.

[@grassmowermo7438]

Chocolate:just one more piece Book:just on more page Britan:just one more country

[@pradeep8056]

British did not fail but they did it purposely

[@hoplite723]

Something makes me think they did this all on purpose so when Britain has the resources again.... They will take South Asia again since they will all be divided and fighting each other it will be like picking a ripe fruit

[@siduk6005]

Yes they did all this in a calculated way. Sadly our nations still don't understand that if they stopped the arms race they could become much greater nations and eradicate poverty in their nations.

[@ON-YT]

Or set it to fail.

[@ukisbeggar8462]

@@hoplite723 britain has resources because they looted them from other countries

[@Beo19]

'To fail someone' can mean 'to betray' or to 'purposely not give someone what they want'. 'To fail something', on the other hand, means you tried to do it, but didn't succeed.

[@abhinavjain2707]

British didn't failed. Everything went according to the plan.

[@fivesix3868]

Abhinav jain Indeed. It’s a failure of them if they were good people

[@warnpassion]

Abhinav jain Correct!

[@rishab5293]

Yep it's we who failed.

[@abhinavjain2707]

@@rishab5293 We let them divide us, rule us, break us. That was the failure

[@daniyaparvez2143]

they didn't have a plan. that's a very clear deduction from history

[@rafayrehman07]

Just imagine how many millions died in past centuries for NOTHING.

[@OF01975]

Think of all the lifes killed for some idea HUMANS themselfes made up, religion

[@awakashsinha9926]

Just imagine how many r now being killed by Jihadis

[@awakashsinha9926]

@Seth FREAKIN Rollins They r surely terrorita but u can't compare or appreciate Jihadis ,I believe Islam is the real issue for World they r always against other religions and now some radical organisation in every religion adopting the same by learning from U stupid radicals . U know the fact is in other religion barely people r radical but in Islam they r all radical each and every people

[@awakashsinha9926]

@Seth FREAKIN Rollins Coz we didnt have shameful agenda of occupying every region or conversion and also u really dont seem smart to discuss go along ur way and choose something to do u r good at

[@StarChildInABubble]

the brits thought it's funny

[@heythere1619]

Age restricted?? Seeing this conflict since my childhood..

[@amednbl]

Lol

[@oversouledict2005]

Mr. Scary 666 I don’t think that is a “lol.” That is actually pretty sad,

[@mushyomens6885]

The "video" is age-restricted because it contains graphic images. Not the topic, of course

[@vinayakohri1293]

I was thinking the same thing

[@amnishsingh9093]

Because of disturbing images

[@naeemsweet]

Love to India from Pakistan .... just imagine how our economy and life will be if we live in peace with each others with our open borders

[@anonymousindian37]

@hafizul faizal ghajwa e hind was peacefull isn't it ..

[@anonymousindian37]

@hafizul faizal ghajwa e hind ...

[@anonymousindian37]

@hafizul faizal you don't know it or pretend to be not knowing it ...

[@cvry2813]

Not at all. Indians and the ancestors of Pakistanis (Mughals, Delhi Sultans, Persians) have been in conflict for centuries long before the British even arrived

[@cvry2813]

@ Exactly! We can NEVER have peace! We have been in conflict for 1000 years ever since you people invaded us from Persia

[@shazilakhtar]

British: Divide and rule Indian/Pakistan political parties: Amen to that!

[@orioncreation-iitian]

@Sudo Pig true

[@Piyushgathalaiitb]

Tell me British created Anti Bengali sentiment, Anti Ahmediya sentiment in Pakistan. Or Shia Sunni divide. Nehru, Gandhi didn't amen to divide and rule. That's why India isn't hindu pakistan no matter how much Pakistan tries to pull India to its level. India is secular vibrantly democratic with professional role of army without power politics.

[@zarrar736]

Piyush gathala are you sure its secular ? Its PM has solely dominated the elections by his one goal , hindu control. And its not just hindus , every sect is killing the other for their own goals , muslims incl other religious groups are killed for farming cows or less on daily basses yet people say its secular

[@alstonfernandez]

THE BRITISH KNOW HOW RICH AND POWERFUL INDIA AND PAKISTAN WILL BECOME IF WE UNITE. SO THEY WILL TRY TO KEEP US DIVIDED AT ALL COSTS. CHINA INDIA PAKISTAN SHOULD UNITE . LETS PUT RELIGION BEHIND US .. LET US UNITE AND MAKE ASIA GREAT AGAIN !!!

[@AmritZoad]

We should find a way to silence our right wings once and for all.

[@RandomVideosEverytime]

thank you vox for making a video on this and pointing out the divide and rule policy of british. religion has always been a integral part of India and they played with it...

[@flaviusbelisarius7517]

@Balochi boy it's from the Greeks actually. India is called Hindustan in most Indian languages, it's only in English and languages that took the name from us, we took the name from the Greek name for the Indus River

[@flaviusbelisarius7517]

@Balochi boy I didn't say the name Hindustan had anything to do with Hindu the religion. Indians calling their land after a small group near the border is just like how Germany is named in most languages. The allemagne were a tribe were powerful on Germany's Western frontier in the late roman era, the raided so often their name came to mean all Germans, still to this day they are called this by French and Spanish still call them that. Even the Germans own name for themselves originally meant someone from southern Germany or Austria

[@MohitYadav-jw6nf]

@Balochi boy my sindhi friends are hindu Hindu is not a religion ,Santana is the word and we prefer bharat name for our country .

[@bhanupratap1063]

@Balochi boy Hindustan means the country between Himalayan to Indu Mahasagar Indu Mahasagar is the original name of Indian ocean. It came from Sanskrit later on Persians adopted it

[@bhanupratap1063]

@Balochi boy Baloch's were Hindus too Didnt you hear about Hinglaj Mata Mandir ?? It is known as Nani Mandir in balochi

[@navkaurx]

My grandfather was Punjabi and fought in the war between India and Pakistan. He was young when his family and himself fled from Pakistan and settled in Punjab (North India). All he has seen in his life is conflict and war. I wish I could have had more time to talk with him about the political tensions of the past and how his military experience was. He returned home paraplegic, alcoholic and as a result he died earlier than he was supposed to. R.i.p. grandpa, and may god bless the rest of the souls who lost their lives at that bloody time. May they rest in peace...

[@dyer308]

My uncle also fought in the 1971 war on the pak side, respect to all soldiers whether Indian or pak 😢😢😢

[@bestgoyim6656]

Nope they may not rip hahahaha

[@xiimSid]

My grandfather served Indian army in world war. My grandparents migrated from UP to Pakistan Punjab. They have told us stories too.

[@theobuniel9643]

@@bestgoyim6656 "Haha imma joke about ppl dying LOLOLOLOL 😂😂😂 I'm such an edgy sociopath!!1!"

[@_Atzin]

@@bestgoyim6656?

[@mrchevn20]

Very sad story... It is like two brothers who receive two different education systems and grow up turning against each other's back. Why can't we live in harmony?

[@Aditya-ns9xl]

Aren't you Chinese?

[@mrchevn20]

@@Aditya-ns9xl Nope, I am Vietnamese. Thanks for asking bro!

[@ubertube5308]

Well said

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

@@Aditya-ns9xl Nguyen is pretty common Vietnamese last name tho the Le looks Chinese so I see why you thought they were Chinese

[@Aditya-ns9xl]

@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 Sorry if i hurt anyone's sentiments. My comment was only for pun. Thank you all for letting me know the difference between Vietnamese and chinese

[@josuepalomares6820]

Land: *exists* England: "Its free real estate"

[@arjund2018]

Literally tho😂😂

[@AliHassan-wq1od]

Hahah! 😂😂

[@yugandhardive9852]

Haha

[@bunceman4613]

*Britain

[@ronashapouri403]

Actually it’s *BRITAIN*

[@ishwarchincholkar]

British never include this history in theirs studies.

[@AKSHAY-bu4ox]

British include the 1897 war in books but not in india, we only get akbar

[@suryasishtalukdar210]

@@AKSHAY-bu4ox it is war of 1857 not 97 and it is taught in India

[@JJaqn05]

Ok and? We don't learn about important parts of our history as well

[@eliazmarlin1122]

well fair enough

[@ishwarchincholkar]

@@eliazmarlin1122 yes

[@Asha-it3nm]

We Indians and Pakistanis have A LOT in common. But, the Kashmir issue has torn us apart and this was intentionally kept as the bone of contention to keep us busy. And, we continue and continue to make it a success. Many have benefitted from it and are still benefiting from it(Now, China)

[@RayyanAshraf]

That was the intention of the British. To create tensions between these two nations and leave the fights so the people would suffer.

[@haiderzaidi3134]

Exactly, and these world powers continue to pressurise our governments to purchase weapons from them to prolong this conflict and keeping our populations in poverty. And still majority of both Pakistan and India are too dumb to realise this.

[@tejasmohite2651]

@@haiderzaidi3134 i agree with u , when millions are poor we are busy buying weapons

[@RayyanAshraf]

@Britannic hayyomatt before the British, the Mughal empire existed which included half of Afghanistan, whole of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. The British requested to trade with India and then took over.

[@adityajoshi345]

@@haiderzaidi3134 I agree with you bro both the sides want peace and political parties use the divide between us and escalate the issues. Hope both the country's will some day end conflict and we can live in harmony how we lived before the arrival of British

[@ndiyabucaphukelaubusobakho1732]

It's scary how the comment section is so peaceful O.o

[@P.a.r.a.d.o.x]

lol true say.

[@ssssSTopmotion]

Start a war in the comments

[@HCXVII]

@@ssssSTopmotion whats your favorite animal

[@ssssSTopmotion]

@@HCXVII you

[@HCXVII]

@@ssssSTopmotion woof woof

[@sudocreme5080]

So you’re saying imperialism causes conflict? Who would have guessed

[@wazankash]

In this case, all conflict could have been prevented if the British had tied the knot correctly. Dividing a country on the basis of ideological differences is a foolish idea.

[@augustsmith6435]

What was the British supposed to do?

[@sudocreme5080]

Yasir Wazankash imperialism is by nature oppressive and will only result in one thing, armed resistance by the native population.

[@sudocreme5080]

August Smith Not try to colonise a third of the world

[@blackhole-gz7mg]

You just described America.

[@adinnaikhwani6255]

British : "DIVIDE AND RULE" America : "DIVIDE AND DESTROY" Same both of them

[@joaquinnotphoenix3055]

Adinna Ikhwani Father and Son

[@adinnaikhwani6255]

@@joaquinnotphoenix3055 yes

[@joaquinnotphoenix3055]

Adinna Ikhwani but you have to see the bigger picture my friend for they’re not our enemies. They’re also victims under the control of a puppet master.

[@adinnaikhwani6255]

@@joaquinnotphoenix3055 yes, and the puppet now is in the USA

[@boostftw123]

The brits eventually colonized america

[@varun4252]

"It is important to remember where it all began, a british strategy that was designed to create a religious divide between people of one nation." Great line! Love from india

[@kohlinoor]

@ True, but at least they clarified that in the next breath. Quite the juxtaposition, but they didn't fully mislead people.

[@lonelyb9661]

The division between Muslim and Hindu existed for over 1,000 years when the British arrived.

[@86RSJag]

Blame it on Britain... whereas in reality to both believe in different fairytales. And hate the others fairytale so much that you want to kill them. Pathetic.

[@abhishekrampalli6401]

Religious divide existed long before British arrived and it still does. Britain just exploited this nothing else. Read history of the last years of Mughal era and then comment.

[@nashgill1062]

- Joseph This. Annoys me how much in India the ravages of the Mughal Empire are ignored

[@juselara02]

Ohh good ol' colonialism... the father of many of our current problems.

[@BankerLokesh]

Love to Pakistani from india. No bitter feelings I hope we both countries prosper together.

[@varun4252]

Same bhai

[@dmuth4484]

My biased self has realized that there were wrongs that were done on both sides. At this point, peace is needed.

[@ahmad-masroor]

Many times multiplied love back to you brother... Inshallah our generation will bring peace via education and tolerance

[@slimkhalifadogg]

Considering how both of our countries made the Gulf states what they are today, imagine the possibilities if we come together.

[@bsandhar29]

We need to come together if India wand Pakistan will ever reach its full potential

[@abdurrahmanf.a.5624]

Love for India and Pakistan from Indonesia. We also knew how it felt to be divided by tribes and faiths, we struggle for independence at around the same time. Peace for you all

[@OtisAdonisChad]

In Indonesia too radical Muslim conquered the peace loving Hindus who won't attack any faith unless provoked.

[@bishopbasher123minecraftan2]

@@OtisAdonisChad India is the Hindu IS

[@ILHAMINDRAWIJAYA]

@@OtisAdonisChad Have you ever heard of Hindus being slaughtered in Indonesia? Now see in india

[@OtisAdonisChad]

@@ILHAMINDRAWIJAYA Indonesia was Hindu. Why is there global push back against Islam!?

[@ILHAMINDRAWIJAYA]

@@OtisAdonisChad not just hindu. There are also Buddhists. And in Indonesia they are still there and are not prohibited from carrying out their beliefs. So if there are many radical Muslims in Indonesia. Then why are they (not Muslims) all still alive or not forbidden to do their beliefs?... I think you need to learn more about Islam. Insya Allah, you will find the truth

[@illmatic19]

Finally something India and Pakistan can agree on

[@outdatedtank4542]

Says no one

[@hamzamuhammad4041]

Hahahaha Yes that is right

[@randomyoutuber6577]

True 😅

[@usmanqureshi08]

This is just Indian narrative/propoganda Pakistan recalls both Bharat and Britain in same light during its creation Pakistan also don't blame Britain for partition of Punjab Partition of Punjab was approved from Punjab legislative assembly and it was demanded by Sikh/Hindu punjabis It is Indian state which is not allowing Kashmiris their right of self determination which is real issue Rest of the theories Indian spin to deflect Kashmir issue

[@VARMOT123]

Fifa Gamer there were many Hindus in Kashmir as well called Kashmiri pandits and they were massacred in the 90s

[@robkillings9564]

Its funny how people think this was done by accident. The British planned very well ahead.

[@FairGame-w2i]

The British dont have an Independence Day .

[@chansherly212]

its march 29th 2019

[@XOPOIIIO]

Actually it has from Roman Empire.

[@hediyehb9082]

Brexit 29th March ... lol

[@braincoolo9399]

29th of March

[@unlink1649]

So doesn't Germany, France and many other old countries.

[@badrissaad]

Next up; HOW AMERICA FAILED IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, libya . yemen AND SYRIA

[@petepete1830]

badr issaad how Islam failed the whole world

[@danielorr7964]

Next up. How all African, Arab, Caribbean, and Asian countries problems were caused only by outside powers and are victims and have never done anything wrong.

[@leodarksam6230]

@@petepete1830 Why Is that always the only argument you come up with in your defense?

[@arminhillman7956]

Ah yes.. a succeeding democracy in Iraq, the weakening of jihadist fighters in Afghanistan, noninvolvement in Yemen, even less involvement in Libya and opposing a brutal dictatorship that slaughters its own people, my my...how the US has failed (sarcasm).

[@yotub5979]

Don't forget Britain and France after WWI

[@vipulbhatotia1415]

"It is true the sun never set on the British Empire, because even God didn't trust them in the dark" - Dr. Shassi Tharror.

[@danielw.2554]

@Anglo-Celtic Mega Nationalist are ya butthurt?

[@himanisharma6645]

Damn true

[@TheRishijoesanu]

Chal be lodu.

[@vipulbhatotia1415]

@@TheRishijoesanu so sweet of you.

[@meetk95]

Shashi Tharoor said in one interview at Oxford general assembly : "British rule never seen dark because even god didn't trust English in dark"

[@TheAdnanmajor]

During the migration. People didn't have much time so most of them left with the clothing on their back. My family fled for their lives and along the way got separated. Half of them fled to east Pakistan and the others went to west Pakistan. My grandmother still tells me this story to this day. They hopped on trains and buses and at times walked for miles. All the time while trying to avoid areas that are prone to riots and people getting killed. Therefore to this very day I still have families who now live in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

[@basitali9583]

Adnan Amin Plz document all those stories by any means. Record them or by any other means. Citizens archive of pakistan can probably help you. We need these stories for our next generations. Plz plz plz.

[@saikaushikkothapalli4059]

Adnan Amin You should have also gone to either of those countries

[@pax4370]

Yeah i mean, half of them went to the bengal n otger half went to 2000 km up in punjab? Why? Shouldnt have they gone to any one particular region?

[@rohitr9400]

@@saikaushikkothapalli4059 , what a stupid thing to say..

[@muraliny6770]

So sorry to hear you family story.

[@FarazMazhar]

Honestly, it hurts me to see the subcontinent in this situation. I really wish Pakistan and India come to terms. I wish peace prevails. With love, from Pakistan.

[@anubhutijain5487]

Wishing for the same.

[@humblebee8334]

True, wish it was one like once b4 Bangladeshis have family members across the border in India and that’s both Hindus & Muslims

[@adroitter]

We do wish the same as well....:-) :-)

[@vaishrox66]

People get so worked up between borders in Pakistan and India. Comes to show that land is more important than people.

[@No_One1231]

I wish we (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) come back together like before partition but that's not possible now :/

[@dyer308]

Talks about India Talks about Pakistan Bangladesh: am i a joke to you

[@cricketfreaks8181]

Jinnah : Did you mean East Pakistan?

[@schaz7563]

@@cricketfreaks8181 *East Bengal It's funny that we still call our's as West Bengal

[@RaghunandanReddyC]

@@schaz7563 Bangladesh used to be called east Pakistan before 1971.

[@stawfiq5]

AMAR SONAR BANGLA

[@TheRaju991]

@Black Gold cost of India?

[@shivamgarg5655]

Show this to every British school and college.

[@JJaqn05]

nah everyone already knows that empires = bad.

[@bo4elite185]

@@JJaqn05 No, they don’t! If they did know they wouldn’t be so ignorant!

[@eliazmarlin1122]

not necessary...the British rule was good for us here...in the northeast india

[@shivamgarg5655]

@@eliazmarlin1122 See mizoram how they converted whole state to Christianity

[@eliazmarlin1122]

who cares!!!even my state MEGHALAYA is a Christian state..

[@MrDots99]

Do how the British failed Israel and Palestine , the Irish and the Irish ect. Could get a lot of episodes out of a series like that...

[@Jaffjv]

@Aidan Doherty they are much better off than they were under Ottoman rule..

[@anubhabsaha4014]

Another video about how the British failed humanity

[@cathdaws3396]

The Irish and the Irish and the Irish again... That itself is a series

[@EbrahimHasan]

@@comradeuro4255 How ignorant. The land was ruled by Britain, and Britain created the problem by shipping foreigners, then just as the Brits left, Israel was declared, and the UN resolution was a mere formality.

[@someone2804]

Would love to see a video on Palestine and Israel, lots of people have no idea what’s happening there beside typical biased media lashes with their propaganda.

[@ladydynamite7]

Ah yes, divide and rule, a global phenomenon of the British Empire, from Belfast to Bengal, through Nicosia and Nigeria.

[@yarambamba9253]

Dynamite critique

[@malehumanperson7901]

Muslim-Hindu conflict was going on for centuries before European contact and will go on for centuries into the future. Focusing on Europeans is missing the larger point.

[@ladydynamite7]

Dudes, of course it existed there previously, and was intense to begin with. The point of the policy is to use existing discontents to your advantages, not to manufacture those discontents. I am coming at this from the perspective of another culture that saw these tactics at play. I'm not some white-guilt Brit. I'm from Ireland. We know a thing or two about the lingering effects of British colonialism.

[@kalpeshmanna7233]

A brilliant policy actually 😋

[@rinkiakepapa5625]

@@ladydynamite7 oh you are an irish, great to hear that people from your country the ireland is speaking up against the British Empire I think more and more people from Ireland and also from Scotland speak up but sadly I don't think so many active right now from those places!!

[@railrubyroad]

We could blame the British Empire for Partition. But the consequent chaos and animosity between India and Pakistan is completely on us. Our political leaders have failed us. The Kashmiris have taken most of the brunt of this ridiculous fight.

[@darthsideous4478]

Bidu Bidu a Any you idiots killed each other God have mercy on your souls

[@jamesedwardrichardson2131]

@Bidu Bidu well exactly, if it was caused by the British and partition, why continue a fight started by someone else?

[@darthsideous4478]

Bidu Bidu lol was not brainwashing

[@mamathabhat8849]

Its like u r asking fire itself to stop burning!!! I don't disagree with ur point about the ugly fight b/w the two countries but do u think this act and its effect can be easily forgotten?? No one has such a big heart to forgive the British and a great understanding to spread peace instead of hatred. So, the violence between the two countries is valid(even if u disagree), at least for some decades!!! ...and ya, Britishers have also took our Kohinoor, and that is also not forgiveable!!!

[@rishab5293]

Finally someone who willing to take responsibility. We people like to blame everyone but ourselves. As bhagat singh said independence won't change much if white babus are replaced by Brown babus, the divide and rule is still alive and well and people are too damn stupid to realise it.

[@ilya.kudesnik]

The British 'divide and rule' strategy is left unexplained here though.

[@AkashGaur2022]

It’s a lie British didn’t divide, India was already divided

[@rishav_killerx6011]

@@AkashGaur2022 british did the fights between hindu and muslim so that they can annex india easily you uneducated ppl

[@bobbobertson8650]

@@rishav_killerx6011 religion has been responsible for conflicts in India for many centuries, far before the British even arrived. while Partition worsened this and only stoked the fire, it is religious rifts and hatred which creates this violence, not the British themselves, they merely played on the existing bigotry of the Indian population

[@rishav_killerx6011]

@@bobbobertson8650 I know ppl like you will Blame us By Religions Now, If you see History of India it was of Mughal rule and Mauryan Empires, Maratha Empire thats why India is a Secular Country ppl like you just Blame us in the name of religion

[@rishav_killerx6011]

@@bobbobertson8650 ppl like you think that killings And Lootings done by Britishers is not their fault it's of Indians by making many conspiracies

[@trun_k]

India/Pakistan Israel/Palestine Ireland/Northern Ireland Yeah, the British got a very good history of dividing once united regions into chunks and then chuck out having created the violence.

[@ceasefire2825]

if it wasn't for the brits....wait did they do anything good for us?

[@thedbcooler]

Correct about India/ Pakistan. However Israel/ Palestine wasn't just the British it was also the French and later the UN to create a safe state for the Jews... Ireland/ Northern Ireland also controversial, again mainly done because what we now know as Northern Ireland was at the time majority Unionist and wanted to remain with the United Kingdom because of their heavy roots in Scottish/ British ancestry.

[@ceasefire2825]

@rohan chakraborty what are you trying to say good man?

[@theoreotically]

India had Hindu-Muslim problems before the British rule too and had a lot of problems due to casts and superstitions

[@trun_k]

@@thedbcooler My comment was just a simple jibe at colonialism and how it has created problems all over the world. Leaving aside what some folks say "we went long ago", it can take 200 years to heal the pain of 200 years.

[@gargieagnihotri]

India : India won ! Pakistan : Pakistan won ! Britain : Hold my beer

[@otterhero6229]

@@harshal343 lol sure thing buddy

[@f.b.i4598]

@@harshal343 The British did that to Indians, though.

[@pax4370]

@@harshal343 are bhai gor once angrej ka gulami karna bandh karo.

[@harshal343]

@@pax4370 I am happy that Brits will suffer they deserve it it's called karma

[@Sean-tn5nv]

@@harshal343 So wrong to say that. Why would you want modern day Brits to suffer?!?! Where are you from?? I

[@cripop]

No one : oil Americans : ,_, No one : land British : ,_, China : Tea India : okay Japan : okay British : Opium to make them high ,_,

[@rishabhraja]

No one : terrorists Pakistan : ,_,

[@teringarchief3860]

Nobody: Free Vbucks no scam: free vbucks no scam

[@Udontkno7]

No one: poor unstable countries China: that's some free real estate

[@seanmob2111]

😂😂😂

[@markwalshopoulos]

The US doesn't invade countries for oil. The US gets almost no oil from Iraq and the majority of the oil contracts go to Chinese or European companies

[@thepak1912]

my grandad was in the partition when he was 5, he is still here today

[@ssssSTopmotion]

Wow what's his secret to a long life?

[@sumbalsheikh9010]

Same, my grandfather was 4 and my other grandfather was only 1...i have no idea how they survived

[@gudboi2838]

Ur granddad is older than Pakistan lol

[@apocalypse556]

Same,my grandfather was born in 1942

[@nDua-wz8ox]

My grandpa was 16 during the partition

[@aadityaphadnis8399]

They didn't failed at all. They succeed in what were they were doing. I hope peace prevails ~From India

[@kuryamtl]

Tell that to the million people who perished at Partition and how many people have died in the conflict since then.

[@coasty8979]

Vlodec it was because the Indians were ignoring our demands if we were to be united, if India accepted these demands then most likely there would be a united india but no because you ignored us.

[@coasty8979]

Vlodec what do you mean? If your not going to listen to our demands for us Muslims, than it’s better off for us to have a separate state where we have our own rules and not worry about your majority religion, Hinduism to harm our beliefs.

[@coasty8979]

Vlodec and what are you trying to say in your latest comment? We Muslims and Hindus were going to be in a single state! We have our own requirements to be met for our needs! If your not going to cooperate with us than it’s better off if we separate!

[@sagarprasad1436]

@Vlodec britishers can kill Indians by force but can't try that India remains in one piece?

[@danniesolis96]

4:32 "And to organize Britain's exit from India..." BREXIT from India I guess Brexit is not a new thing

[@user-nk2wl7es5z]

The 20th century was an endless string of Brexits

[@hafidhzuhdi5784]

British's exit always leave a mess, don't they?

[@yoyoyeah9083]

tubatim because their french

[@gautam8072]

The first vox video in which I knew everything already

[@jumanaakhter9955]

Same here.

[@tomwalsh96]

Name checks out

[@vaibhavgupta20]

me too, i'm surprised how fair this was. otherwise India media or Pakistani media go of the deep end.

[@sanyakhanna171]

I agree!

[@sidhantdabas8345]

8th class history

[@1525boy]

There really wasn't much animosity between Hindus and Muslims before the British colonized India. The religious violence and the partition were very much a product of British colonial rule.

[@redwater4778]

The British saved the Sikhs from the Afghan tribes.

[@ritik1413]

@@redwater4778 21 sikhs vs 10000 afgans... Read about battle of Saraghadi first

[@aaronlimeuchin7352]

@Harsha Hanumaiah same in Middle East as well. From documentary and video I watched, the Sunnis and Shias in the Middle East have a wedge with each other, but that did not blown into huge international wars. It only turn out to be when the Western Powers intervened in the region and that is the moment when the Sunnis and Shias start to go to war against each other.

[@1525boy]

@@aaronlimeuchin7352 Interesting, I didn’t know that. I’ll look into it further. What is the the name of the documentary that you saw? Thanks.

[@adarshshukla1397]

Great video... Explained every problem between India and Pakistan... "Divide and rule"

[@PastPresented]

But don't forget that "divide and rule" is most effective when the divisions already exist, waiting to be exploited.

[@SmartChannel01]

@@PastPresented it took 200 years for it to esculate to today Why else do you think they left AFTER the Calcutta killings?

[@PastPresented]

​@@SmartChannel01 Don't forget that in the 1750s the Mughal Empire was collapsing as it attempted to fight off the Marathas in the south, the Sikhs in the North, the Afghans in the north-west. In those days, civilian casualties tended not to be counted. The British suppressed the wars, but kept the cultural differences.

[@humblebee8334]

That’s exactly what’s happening in the Middle East now by US & Israel.

[@PastPresented]

@ It wasn't just the Islamic empires. India was invaded from the north-west again and again and again from the dawn of history. For example, one cause of the decline of Buddhism in the land of its birth was probably the unsuccessful but very destructive Hun invasion in the 6th century

[@prestieger]

My grandpa was from a Sikh family that found itself on Pakistan rather than India during the partition. They killed his whole family except for him and his sister and they fled to India.

[@ShivJ16]

Yash Singh very similar story for my dadaji (dad’s dad), but he was Hindu from Panjab. His entire family, including his parents and sister, were killed when a mob set fire to their house, so he had to flee across the border with his friends. Thankfully he found his uncle. Terrible time this was.

[@JaysMissingKidney]

Pakistan is far more violent, evil, and inbred than beautiful India ever could be.

[@zhen3356]

fck you there were casualties on both sides. There were trains coming into Pakistan with stacked dead bodies because the hindus had set fire to the people inside.

[@champnumber1gmail]

i am sorry to hear that. but the same happened with more intensity to muslims coming in from other parts of india to pakistan. no of hindus/sikhs in pakistan was far lower then the no of muslims migrating to india. we need to know both sides did this, and blamed the other one for all the bloodshed. the sooner we realize our mistakes on both sides, sooner we can start peace .

[@narsimhas1360]

@UniworldCityGGaon true

[@BuddyL]

Colonialism: the stain that never disappears.

[@Aaron-ir4he]

I dunno, the Anglo Saxons got over the Roman invasion.

[@hassaantauseef5426]

Did you try Tide?

[@BuddyL]

@@Aaron-ir4he The Mueller investigation proves otherwise. Ta, troll.🖕🏿

[@BuddyL]

@@hassaantauseef5426 Did you try not having a spam account? Ta, troll.🖕🏿

[@Django19]

Agreed. Some of the colonized are still mentally colonized years later. Just look at the beauty standards, what's considered civilized and sophisticated in their eyes, Etc. They were told they were lesser and some subconsciously still believe that today.

[@akidnamedryan4758]

"How the British failed" should be a vox series because it would never run out of episodes

[@amanrautx]

They didnt failed they know what they were doing...

[@MushBear1]

Vox is single-handedly trying to bring Pakistanis and Indians together through truth and facts. Well done, thank you for highlighting this issue so it can finally come to limelight and a step closer to resolution. My wish is for the Kashmiri people to finally know a time without constant threat of war and conflict.

[@dannypeck96]

by blaming the british, because thats what all "woke" cucks do.

[@vaishrox66]

@@dannypeck96 Read more about the British colonisation of India. It's not about wokeness, it's just facts fam

[@vaishrox66]

@youcometome9 I'm not blaming any of the British people alive tho. I understand that India and Pakistan are not handling the situation properly. They are messing up big time as a partition is never a good idea. But that does not mean the British are completely free of blame.

[@abhishekrampalli6401]

Bullshit. Until religion exists peace will not happen.

[@dannypeck96]

@@vaishrox66 see E B's response. we stabilised the region, helped defuse ethnic tensions, built a nation and its infrastructure. we made mistakes but the current trouble was only "our" fault if the fault was caused by us leaving.

[@prajitpaul8442]

Must applaud VOX how they represented such sensible content in organized way!

[@arvindk711]

What content. There's nothing. I bet you can make better if you read 8th standard books.

[@debrr071]

@Ravinder Sian Yes but this was the first time the two respective religious groups were having problems due to policy

[@debrr071]

@Ravinder Sian No no I meant there was always conflicts in the past but this time the differences came about because of the policy set by the British, not because of the usual quarrels they usually had with one another The conflicts this time around caused massive problems due to the divide and rule tactics used by the British. It led to the partitioning of India. This had never happened before.

[@juvinchaudhary5607]

Pandito ka banaya Jaat paat aur British ka banaya hindu muslim. Ma chod rakhi hai desh ki

[@vitorgross9254]

@Ravinder Sian they literally mention it at the end of the video, are you blind or deaf?

[@nandi_]

India: We Won! Pakistan: We won! . . . No. The British Won!!!!

[@ragvirsinghhothi8848]

Sadly true brother

[@Jagneet9000]

cringe

[@samihawk6379]

🇵🇰 ♥ 🇮🇳

[@Dan-gs2rv]

🇮🇳❤️🇵🇰

[@kalpeshmanna7233]

True story

[@sayyidsahal4533]

We will be united soon. Everyone should be in hope 🇮🇳💑🇵🇰

[@amednbl]

Soon brother ❤

[@worreiyoalungnao8436]

If Pakistan stop funding terrorist.

[@goat634]

Worreiyo Alungnao shut up they don’t I’m Indian and I don’t care.

[@ayaanalam1780]

@@worreiyoalungnao8436 for once can you stop ur hate.

[@suviram.1901]

@@goat634 but its a fact sadly... the state funds terrorists

[@taskinulhaque7366]

You forgot about the Bangladesh situation of 71 because that was also and still is a major place for both nations.

[@blacksheep6174]

U are from Bagladesh Sorry brother we did wrng to u our leaders were cruel of that time

[@mizanulhaque8476]

SuFi Muslim it’s okay, it’s not the fault of the common Pakistani, but I blame what happened to us on Ayub Khan and the Pakistani military.

[@taskinulhaque7366]

@@blacksheep6174 no problem brother it's the corrupt politicians of all 3 nations which has created divisions amongst us

[@hamzaabbass1300]

@@mizanulhaque8476 it was Yahya khan not ayub Khan

[@cocoproductions3645]

@@blacksheep6174 it is not your fault I still love pakistan i want to visit one day from bangladesh

[@minimidder2025]

My grandmother used to tell me about the horrors of partition she witnessed as a child. During the Great Calcutta Killings, both Muslims and Hindus died but the number was 10 times in case of Hindus. My grandmother's father got killed barbarically and one of her elder sisters got abducted and later was found dead. My grandmother told us, her mother and another sister and two brothers were in Dhaka at that time which now is in mordern day Bangladesh. She cries often remembering how her healthy mother suffered a major stroke hearing the news and remained paralysed for the rest of her life. All the shops in Calcutta were looted. My grandma said, all their possesions were gone. She says, there were two speakers at the Muslim meeting called at around 4 PM. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Khawaja Nazimuddin. Both these leaders made speech that the ‘government will not interfere’. And thus instigated the muslim community can take up law into their own hands. This particular date was selected as Mohammed himself slaughtered on the said day the infidels of Arabia in the Battle of Badr. However, it was certainly better than the Noakhali riots where the entire Hindu population of 50,000 was wiped out. Hindu community was more affected because India was declared a secular country where all religions could live but East Pakistan and West Pakistan was declared an Islamic Country due to which Hindus and Sikhs had to flee from their home into India. The worst fact is, the leaders just to hold their high positions in the government, instigated people which eventually led to the massacre. Neither Jinnah nor Nehru was hurt ofcourse but common men and women and children on both sides had to bear the brunt of the mischief makers who caused the riots. Before anyone says I'm generalising, I'd say I just shared my side of the story what I've heard from my Grandmother and I believe History shouldn't be hidden. And, many muslims were very nice people, her neighbours, they actually helped my grandmother stay safe during the massacre. This only reflects how the innocent always have to suffer at the cost of the influentials. Hope we all can rise above all this and make peace..

[@stormyzvox2185]

Mini Midder More reasons to why BJP should be re elected in India.

[@Oldaccount-wx2lg]

I'm SORRY.

[@aminahshahid8878]

Dear I'm sorry for whatever your family had to go through but actually more muslims died than Sikhs and Hindus combined rather than 10 times more Hindus killed than muslims, and it's quite understandable too as Muslims being a minority had to suffer more

[@plt7915]

@@aminahshahid8878 look now atleast don't count the bodies of dead person, and I don't know from where u get that stat. But in a riot u can't say Hindus r offender or muslim because if u don't kill them they will kill u, and that's the mindset. But yes if u have to blame anyone for this then it just had to be md ali Jinnah. Because he was the one who called for direct action day, and the great calcutta killing was orchestrated by him. He said we either have a divided india or a destroyed india. And I got one question for u, take a breath cool down and please answer , do u think do partition worth it???? Considering the amount of bloodshed occurred and loss of property. Don't know about u but we r a victim of partition. Only punjabi and bengali knows the horror of partition, specially bengali as we suffered two times

[@aminahshahid8878]

@@plt7915 I'm not counting bodies just stating a fact that more muslims died and no way m a Jinnah deserves to be blamed for the riots he was the one who always defended the united independent India's idea despite the backlash but after witnessing Congress's biassness towards Hindus he had to accept that muslims being a minority will always be vulnerable thus he wanted a safe land for muslims but it was not acceptable to Hindus as they couldn't have an akhand Bharat if the separation took place ,Hindus had a reason to initiate riots while mulims didn't simple as that

[@BankerLokesh]

We don't need British to divide us now, Indian and Pak political parties are enuf.

[@NoneOfTheAbove123]

We don't need British to divide us now, because we are already divided.

[@sukritaggarwal7136]

India ki koi ek galti batayega mere jazbaati bhai?

[@lonelyb9661]

The Muslim Hindu divide was over 1000 years old when the British got there. The British unified them. When the British left the unifying factor left.

[@prasadkadam4915]

@@lonelyb9661 on what factors are you claiming that they were divided way before British arrived? If you gonna state the battles between Hindu and Muslim Kings, that doesn't justify your comment. There battles were based on basis on land, resources and all other factors on which almost every battle took place in history of world happened. Religion was never an issue before the Britishers arrived. I don't hold any grudge against any religion, nation, or race for situations right now. But the acceptance of mistakes is what ethical.

[@lonelyb9661]

@@prasadkadam4915 Religion was never an issue? The Mughal empire tried converting Hindus to Islam and killed and exiled the Buddhists who lived in India. So Buddha who lived in India and India the birthplace of Buddhism doesn't have a significant Buddhist population to this day. And you claim religion wasn't a division. I guess you are claiming despite them fighting battles against each other they were a unified people? Your post doesn't make any sense.

[@hemalbhatt4055]

Congress is not a Hindu party. Congress included people from all religions and caste

[@hemalbhatt4055]

@jigger jones See I am not here to defend congress okay. Congress has failed miserably to deliver and has been one of the most corrupt political outfit. But whatever I have said is a FACT. Congress has lost elections not because it is anti Hindu , but because it is more corrupt and its governance failures

[@ashishkalam9337]

@@hemalbhatt4055 I think Congress is a failure but it's goals were correct but not achievable.

[@hemalbhatt4055]

@@ashishkalam9337 Agreed. I am a Hindu. But I am an Indian first. I have voted for bjp not because of Hindu Muslim issue , but the development issue

[@bideshpaul8474]

Congress was and is secular party

[@zamanasif5766]

Initially it was hindu conservative party

[@sukhrajsingh466]

and Sikhs got caught in the middle for absolutely nothing

[@ahmad-masroor]

Sikhs brothers should have been given their own nation if their leaders would have United whole Sikh population in 1947. It's very good to see leaders like Siddu pa g in India. Imran Khan opened Kartartarpur for Sikhs.

[@pahulgill6114]

Seriously man, wtf did Sikhs do wrong! And why did they have to separate and divide Punjab. Leave the Sikhs alone, go fight in some other state.

[@tenone7726]

Ahmed Masroor just so you know it was muslims who were killing the siks the time of partition. same is going on in pakistan till date.

[@tenone7726]

General Bajwa so how many siks are there in pakistan now compared to the days of partition.?

[@quilliamattari2772]

During partition the Sikhs killed a lot of Muslims that were trying to flee to Pakistan. Our elders still tell us stories of what the Sikhs did.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

The Wagah border reminds me of the DMZ except the DMZ doesn’t have ceremonial standoffs

[@adisura9904]

It is quite heavily manned as well and one of the few you could get a sattalite picture of. That ceremony at wagah border is just a tradition carried on since partition.

[@ssaurabh566]

Hey kim wanna suck? Oh sorry you already suck

[@areelpervez9543]

Pls don't bomb me

[@anonymous-404]

Hey chief !

[@makeinindia5818]

Hi sir kim jong-un

[@dipankar154]

"The sun never set on the British empire, because even God couldn't trust the Englishman in the dark."

[@hwr2590]

God isn’t real

[@Gimmers18]

Except the Empire was mostly ran by both the English and the Scots who were also very heavily involved in the Empire as well.

[@henryedge8914]

God is an Englishman

[@corruptedcola393]

@@Gimmers18 to them it's all the English, it's funny because it actually makes their point less valid.

[@baileynewton8463]

India is one of the best and fast growing economies and you still take aid from Britain, Europe, and the Americas. Yet you still blame your broken system and country on the white man.

[@neoculturetea2486]

brits for the 29848th time: lets draw some lines over the map and hopefully nothing will go wrong

[@carwyngriffiths]

neoculturetea hey atleast out of those 29848 attempts we got it right I’d say once?

[@Theo-bk6qj]

Carywn Griffiths lol

[@deepakbatra]

My grandma died in the partition It was the Punjabis who suffered

[@HS-mo1ii]

My bibi ji was told to commit suicide incase she got raped during the 1947 Partition. She didn’t, and she made it safely.

[@anujsrivastava8894]

Totally agreed! It was Muslims who started massacre of sikhs as can be seen in British archives.

[@deepakbatra]

@@anujsrivastava8894 the people who started it were stupid

[@aniruddhsingh4169]

Sindhis and bengalis too. Don't forgot them.

[@mohammedfahad3564]

Anuj Srivastava Actually no Sikh and Muslims started massacre at eachother almost at the same time. The partition of punjab and the anger of losing homes and their sacred Gurdwara is what angered the sikhs the most thus attacks on Muslims. Hindus actually we’re the first religion to start violence out of all three religions prepartition.

[@MJfp6lx]

Europe: Pilages the subcontinent Subcontinent people immigrate to Europe* Europe: *Surprise Pikachu face*

[@ion5822]

lmao but germany did nothing in india, nor did sweden, it was just france and britain. Isnt fair to the rest of europe

[@Romariotvaz]

@@ion5822 But most Indians in Europe are there legally, and generally don't cause any trouble, and try to integrate as much as possible, so is it really a problem?

[@danculea7865]

About half of all of Europe's countries never had colonies and many didn't even exist until WW1 as their territories were part of various European empires.

[@derljackson5365]

@@Romariotvaz migrants are actually our saviours since our welfare System for old people (Generationenvertrag) needs always more young People then old people or it will collapse. And if you looks at the birth rates you will See that germany is actually shrinking in Population, so ofc we always welcome new workers in order to pay for our welfare state

[@ADIMM0]

There's a huge difference between immigrating to a country and settling compared to forcefully taking over a country and then settling like has been done in America and Australia.

[@ज्योतिष्कघोष]

Failed? Let's not pretend that the Britishers are some angels. Let's call it as it is, destabilized intentionally.

[@davidjacobson6791]

Jyotiska Ghosh Yeah. I think a lot of people are distracted from the British intent. They were pretty scared that India would ally with the Soviet Union thus they sandwiched India between two Pakistans. This would insure if India ever allied with the USSR or became an industrial power on their own they couldn’t project their power into the Middle East and Southeast Asia, in which both the United States and Britain had colonies/puppet states, without going through Pakistan. Which considering the civil unrest and bad blood, was practically an impossibility. At least that is my understanding of the situation.

[@03.achyuthans39]

@@rick88261 are you serious.or sarcastic? If you are sarcastic, then it is not appreciated here If you are serious, sorry to tell you , your mindset is stuck in the Victorian Era

[@aseth9541]

@@rick88261 Imperialists and their allergy to facts and history. Don't expect people to be sorry because your racist violent ancestors royally messed up the world

[@nakenmil]

@@03.achyuthans39 - He has posted this comment on virtually every comment thread here. He's either trolling or is just a neonazi. In either case he is an moron.

[@nocturne9257]

@@sampatkalyan3103 Not that I at all support his racist view but you seem just as bigoted as him with that comment.

[@hydrogenr]

Now you know why we are always arguing online XD

[@husseinbazzy8294]

legit that's the reason I watched this video xD

[@cvry2813]

Not at all. Indians and the ancestors of Pakistanis (Mughals, Delhi Sultans, Persians) have been in conflict for centuries long before the British even arrived

[@sanidjain1903]

@The Alchemist yup the amount of money we spend to maintain the armed forces can help so many people and let's not forget our beloved politicians and religious people

[@lauraqueentint]

comments on kashmir video: BRITAIN CAUSED ALL OF THIS. HELL TO BRITAIN. comments on this video: yeah.

[@clarktierney8987]

Dear Laura, lol, no. India was messed up thousands of years before that.

[@psvhangoveral]

God save the Queen

[@varunmanjunath9123]

@@clarktierney8987 lol true, but not thousands, but hundreds of years ago (when the Mughals invaded) That said, the Kashmir problem (a byproduct of partition) was definitely a British invention.

[@mayurgupta2422]

Laura they will be in hell if they don’t go for Brexit this year

[@lauraqueentint]

since yall have decided on the narrative that i was speaking with my own opinion??? im just gonna leave this here: ITS A JOKE ABOUT HOW PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTED ON BOTH VIDEO. NOT MY OWN VIEWS. in fact, i didn't once say that I PERSONALLY state my opinion. so yall, sit your asses down and read it again, slowly.

[@TapadeepChakraborty]

I'm from Calcutta (now Kolkata), even though it has historically been one of the most secular parts of the country, whenever my grandma tells me stories about her perilous immigration from Dhaka into Kolkata, I get goosebumps, to this day.

[@AshKetchup123]

Wow, can you retell some of the stories in comments section?

[@AshKetchup123]

@JimboParadox I don't think it's cool to generalize like that bro, maybe some of them have an elitist attitude, but most are cool and this video makes a point to look past trivial differences, since we are ultimately the same people, and that is the more important lesson.

[@XOPOIIIO]

Disputed terretories between 3 nuclear states.

[@akhashdhillon2159]

Whos the 3rd one?

[@yogeshwaran316]

@@akhashdhillon2159 china

[@hancock129]

What could possibly go wrong

[@tusharrrrrr]

China and Pakistan are together. Pakistan gifted a part of kashmir to china, that's how stupid they are just because china started giving loans to them and pakistan is still indebted to them.

[@XOPOIIIO]

@@tusharrrrrr Pakistant gives this part because they understand that it is not their land.

[@lillyie]

Brexit: took 4 years to finalize Border between two countries: yea let's put a guy who's never been to india before in charge of drawing the border. you have to do it within 1 month. good luck

[@shaildave9910]

Mountbatten ended up losing both India and his wife to Nehru lmao

[@faaazzz]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@abhinavjain2707]

Please read history and you will know that Britishers used Edwina to have a close relationship with India's new PM Nehru and use him

[@jaojao1768]

Well really he intended to "lose" India from the beginning (he was appointed Viceroy to make India independent)

[@shaildave9910]

You guys really need to learn how to take a joke

[@kalpeshmanna7233]

😁

[@cp12298]

My grandfather's sister and her husband died during the migration from India to Pakistan.... Partition, and btw I'm a Muslim...

[@rambopack9140]

congrats ur a muslim

[@nikki1571]

That's why i personslly believe everyone should keep humanity above religion.....if time demands one can or should abondon religion for humanity...afterall nobody can take away what you truly believe in...

[@hnys7976]

Rest In Peace And God Bless ALL

[@mycakedied5773]

@@xesak6624 Says a person from a country whose Prime minister is a Tea Seller and a person who makes his own gods and worships them and also the Same person who worships an elephant. I can see why india is called as the one of the dumbest countries

[@mycakedied5773]

@Apurva Kumar Secular? People are dying every day because they just didn't like your gods. People also died because they ate beef. So much for a secular country, right?

[@joannajoel]

Imagine how great a united india would be! 😭 This is a terrible separation!

[@X.N.M]

Always against separation

[@thecmjcoderbeckett3178]

Really a very strong economic powerhouse, and we could have diverted all our military expenditure into just developing our economy..... Now, both sides have to build up a lot of military strength while both r suffering from poverty and require development....

[@kooale3252]

Nope. Rights of muslims would be completely unprotected in united india since Hindus hold majority(Just look at modern day india. A muslim gets lynched every week). Partition was the best plan for peace if the british actually did it correctly

[@nathanlobo98]

As someone who has Family and Friends in both countries this is especially depressing.

[@arungargg]

My relatives had land in Pakistan! My friend's ancestors had businesses in Pakistan. All that had to be left behind

[@rph_redacted]

My grandpa left all of his belongings in Pakistan and came to India during partition. It took him 3 years to settle. We were given basic ration and a small place to live. He had 2 storey house and 3 retail shops in Pak.

[@ggwpoleg6600]

Yes, I have Hindu friends who had their grandparents gotten their bodies chopped into pieces, when they moved to India. He wishes to go back to see his old village and areas. Sadly, this doesn't seem to have an end. At least as long as Kashmir is given back to India. Since the concept 'Hindus and Muslims can't live together' is bullshit. That's why Kashmir belong to us only.

[@NG-nf2mz]

My grandfather escaped from Pakistan with some of his fellows. Only he made it alive to India

[@donniedarko2329]

My both grandparents from my father and mother side, migrated from different parts of India, Lukhnow, Dehli, Allahabad and they settled in Karachi n Lahore. Bloodshed was unimaginable. We still have some distant relatives living in India. Unfortunately animosity between both countries have grown ten folds now specially because of media downright hate and propaganda. We all migrated from different lands if we traced our lineage thousand of years. This mythology of my sacred land has been the core of bloodshed and violence for thousands of years. I will one day somehow we manage to live like European nation with seperate nation with border but without any hurdle. Even if I have to go to few hundred km from my home town in Pak to India it seems impossible because of so many restrictions. I wish to see my grand parents home one day.

[@rc-y]

I hope some day India & Pakistan will get along. China: Hold my dim sum

[@kiranp5611]

@Ameen Shindoli Nope it's China who will play the separation. US now has cordial relations with both countries

[@geneloh]

Any evidence of that? Don't think China wants a nuclear war at her doorstep. In fact I don't think the US or anyone wants that as well.

[@niveshproag3761]

@@geneloh China hates India as its most powerful neighbour, which is also the largest democracy in the world. So it allied with Pakistan. Do some basic research you'll see.

[@好好说话-m3o]

This Guy there are japan and Russia by the China,and you meant India strongest neighbour?

[@Rexusa]

好好说话 India is it’s 2nd most powerful neighbor, it is stronger than Japan which was only an economic powerhouse in the 80s. Also to everyone else, China has only made the situation worse

[@SK-ry5we]

this shouldve been a multiple part series VOX.

[@BilisNegra]

They released a chapter on Kashmir right before this, so there's hope there'll be more on this topic maybe?

[@wiseguy841]

People seeing this documentary should know that India was one of the richest countries in the world before Brits looted them India was India + Pakistan + Bangladesh at one time

[@RandomGuy-hx6pj]

Yea but that was because of its huge population compared to other countries. Living there was still worse than living in France or Germany for example which weren't as rich as India

[@AliAhmed-ve5xl]

Pakistan was Afghanistan

[@yahx1]

Could VOX start including a list of sources for each story? This would be great for further reading.

[@Guru_Bloke]

You're a star. Yeah good point

[@shivangtiwari14]

Books are the best sources that no video can ever tell. I can suggest many.

[@S_A_P_99]

@@shivangtiwari14 suggest some

[@purplewine7362]

@@shivangtiwari14 cool. Would totally read

[@AbdulHamid-uo2ok]

SHIVANG TIWARI would love some suggestions if you have any!

[@areeb6703]

Bangladesh people: Are we a joke to u? (IF U UNDERSTAND!)

[@iamarh]

I'm Bangladeshi and I feel offended.

[@burhan1527]

Bangladesh was Pakistan untill 1971

[@ednan9]

He is talking up to 1947 pre Bangladesh

[@vsmoonchildmahir283]

I'm bangladeshi and I'm crying lol 😂😂

[@ToneyCrimson]

Learn history my dude..Bangladesh didn't exist at the time.

[@maxharrison6]

It's terrible that religion is a factor in peoples votes. Someone who runs for a seat could be an awful person compared to the opposition but they'll still get votes because they share a religious belief. Blows my mind.

[@Scrunchymage]

Yeah it’s as if we just can’t seem to shake that teething stage of humanity where we had to make up imaginary beings to explain what science does for us now. The sooner we rid ourselves of religion the sooner we will come to world peace in my opinion.

[@sagarraisinghani8676]

worse thing is... this legacy still continues in Indian democracy

[@ultimatetrishbhatia]

It has always been muslims who started conflicts. Moplah? Kashmir? Bengal?

[@abhaymishra30]

To quote Apocalypse Now(redux) "You are fighting over the BIGGEST NOTHING in history!"

[@solvvbiswas9852]

Pakistan is opposite of nothing

[@625dennisk]

@@solvvbiswas9852 Pakistani pride, brother

[@solvvbiswas9852]

@@625dennisk Pakistan has done nothing to be proud of ..... U produce world class terrorist only

[@karanveer3080]

50 % of people in comments section got their knowledge from shashi tharoor’s oxford speech!

[@johndoodle7627]

What Shashi Tharoor spoke is common knowledge to all the people of elderly age in both the countries, he just shared it with a good perspective for younger audience.

[@PastPresented]

@@johndoodle7627 "Common knowledge" can often be a euphemism for "common misrepresentation."

[@ShivJ16]

He’s also written a great book about the British, it’s called Inglorious Empire.

[@PastPresented]

@@ShivJ16 - but that's the problem. "Inglorious Empire" (aka "An Era of Darknes") looks great until you check its sources, and then you find that it's as biased against the British as Niall Ferguson's "Empire" was biased towards the British.

[@shk0014]

@@PastPresented have you read it though?

[@TheDrFunkenstein]

Brits playing the worst game of Civ ever.

[@Sawmpuu]

Very true

[@St-fr2kv]

Yeah if India was not colonized by English at that time maybe they country will be more like Japan cuz Japan was never Colonized By the Euro Nation

[@stevenseemungal5764]

Honestly I usually go as Gandhi and just nuke everyone.

[@iknowyoubetter2028]

Steven Seemungal ??? gandhi was shot a few months after independence

[@jopan6736]

@@iknowyoubetter2028 It's a joke since in civ Gandhi can nuke people

[@RatherA]

Britain messed up Palestine, Cyprus, hongkong, Korea, kashmir

[@goldenmemes51]

And most importantly. PUNJAB :( , A MILLION DIED and Sikhs got scammed by nehru

[@HexAyed]

Korea? No, Hong Kong? No, otherwise Hongkongers would be happy to be with China, Cyprus? Prolly not, not sure tho. Kashmir, pretty sure we left it for them to decide, not our fault Muslims hate every other religion, Palestine? Eh, the Muslims were attacking the Jews waayy before we left.

[@carwyngriffiths]

RatherA how did we mess up Hong Kong?

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

They messed up Africa too

[@omshree2448]

@@carwyngriffiths you see the protests ?

[@udayrathod3786]

Finally someone made a video on this topic with great research. Good job VOX.

[@ahmad-masroor]

Finally

[@manutdwillriseagain4276]

N English people still believes colonization brought prosperity..

[@VPROY-yr9vv]

It's a truth whole Europe made money from Colonies

[@swapnilaraujo]

Well I think he meant to end the sentence with "to India"

[@ayethanmay2452]

well,, in some ways I guess. we became more industrialised and educated and cruel traditions like suttee were stopped. I'm not too sure about it. Ive just read about them in my books.

[@chewypiano7194]

may몬베베 Such a change from “cruel” and “traditional” activity can only be stopped when a country modernises, and for that a successful economy is required. Before British Raj, around 25% global economy was India; after they left, it was 2%. A poor economy parallels regressive and backwards culture. If India hadn’t been under British rule, it would have been one of the largest economies (if not the top) during the latter 20th century. However, albeit gradually, India’s economy is strengthening in areas, but it will take at least a hundred years to be a fully fledged clean, progressive economic top leader.

[@prudhvi8807]

may몬베베 I don’t know what books you have read. Please do read an era of darkness and breaking India. To know true facts. History taught to us in our childhood is half lie.

[@jholotanbest2688]

It is important to remember that there wasn't one nation before the British and there wouldn't be India as we know it without the British.

[@elbaecc]

Oi Vey!

[@abhishekkilab3996]

India was always there if British were not there it would have been much better!

[@nexus6755]

@@abhishekkilab3996 India was a bunch of disunited principalities.

[@abhishekkilab3996]

@@nexus6755 also read about maratha empire in 17 th centuary and about sikh empire! please do some research!

[@mollyhoesch1516]

“The man who lost India” the crown s1 e1 4:26

[@bluefairy7304]

*Tonight is 25th march* Darkest night in history of Bangladesh....In 1971, in this night Pakistan started one of the deadliest genocides in world history and killed more than 3 million Bengalis ... *Let's remember all of them* tomorrow is our independence Day 🇧🇩❤️ *26th march*

[@shashankreddy3646]

Why did they killed them?

[@bluefairy7304]

@@shashankreddy3646 because we asked for our freedom...

[@devmathur5003]

That was horrible but I hope that now we can promote friendly relations between India,Pakistan and Bangladesh And enforce peace once and for all

[@bluefairy7304]

@@devmathur5003 exactly... We should ..

[@MuhammadFaizan-bv2wv]

Pakistan Army killed terrorists. Those terrorists funded and trained by India were killing innocent civilians.

[@laracroft938]

Bangladesh jumped off the hate train and saved itself.....

[@sunset2.00]

Well british made the map like that if not we should have been a separate country from the beginning with colcata. India gained Kolkata we didn't fuss over it much. Peace is more important than instability.

[@leodarksam6230]

@@sooraj1104 Then India should simply give it up.

[@fattiesunite2288]

Sooraj Pakistanis are the only one in the hate train? EXCUSE ME LMAO!! IT WASNT OUR GOVERNMENT THAT STAGED THE PULWANA ATTACK JUST FOR AN EXCUSE TO INVADE.

[@yj1864]

@@fattiesunite2288 You are a dumbwit Pakistani!

[@krab8372]

@@sunset2.00 lol... Bangladesh was never a separate country...nor was West Bengal...it was all part of India...

[@hassaanahmad8816]

Well I like the fact that there is NO BIAS in the video. Straight up facts

[@nikhilsingh6759]

HAHAHAHAHA bit of course you do not care about the displaced Kashmiri pandits.

[@hassaanahmad8816]

Those pundits are not the one suffering, Kashmiris are

[@nikhilsingh6759]

@@hassaanahmad8816 THEY are THE KASHMIRIS.... they had to flew from their homes and remember bastards you will pay for that with your blood eternally

[@fivesix3868]

Hassaan Ahmad It’s made by educated Americans. If it were made by Indians or Pakistanis there would almost DEFINITELY be 70 inaccuracies, mistakes, lies and biases

[@AlexanderRM2010]

Are you being facetious? I can't tell. This is deliberately misleading. Consider the broader historical context.

[@explorerssss]

This is what should be on WhatsApp University forwards

[@adnanaftab5542]

Are u Indian?

[@kostathomas8732]

I swear there's a mob of people out there who swarm to every vox video and dislike it regardless of the subject

[@anonymous-404]

Kosta Thomas possible but India Pakistan has always been a sensitive topic and you can't talk about it without getting a ton of hate !

[@s0vhjfe4SA08adc9js]

Maybe they should stop injecting their opinion into videos that they present as factual, and they'll get less hate.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

@@s0vhjfe4SA08adc9js also called White Cucks egged on by Russian trolls.

[@anuragmishra3227]

@@s0vhjfe4SA08adc9js This video is totally based on facts. Both sides can agree to it.

[@s0vhjfe4SA08adc9js]

@@anuragmishra3227 blaming the hatred between Muslims and Hindus on the British is not only not a fact, it is a bold-faced lie. One need only look at history to see that while the British misadministered India, they did not create the problem of religious hatred. They only exploited it.

[@AncientAccounts]

Hold your nose for the shitstorm of the comments, im going in

[@preoximerias7366]

The Partition of India wasn’t some altruistic move by the British. It wasn’t a move that was done with good intentions that backfired. It was a move that secured Western global influence for decades to come. Especially during the Cold War. The British never wanted a united India during colonial rule, so why do you think they’d want one during independence? The split was perfectly done to make sure India didn’t project power and interfere with the British or the West. Nor be able to better align with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. How can a nation truly live up to its potential if it’s too busy killing one another? The partition of India was one of the greatest failure of South Asia.

[@yuvrajkashyap697]

2:24 who else came to know Nehru was bald after seeing this

[@sumairahmad9464]

lol , i already knew that and im from Pakistan xD

[@papaisduniyakapapa]

Jyadatar Log Jante hai bhai 😂