PARTITIONING THE SUBCONTINENT IN 1947: A MOVE OF WEST AGAINST THE STABILITY OF ISLAM USING APPLICABLE GEOPOLITICAL LAWS
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History of Subcontinent is enriched with secrets, most of research, is done under only the political topics and aspects, instead of geopolitical research. But under the geopolitical prospects, this work is done to highlight one of the hidden secrets of the partition of Subcontinent. There are a lot of geopolitical aspects which were the real causes of the independence as well as partition of Subcontinent which are never tried to highlight, at least in the history of Pakistan and India after the partition. Being an easy access choke point, this patch of land had been an arena of global traders and invaders. These powers changed and used geopolitics of this choke point according to their own benefits while Muslims of this area considered it a great opportunity for the stability of Islam. At any point of time this patch of land never loses its importance. In the near past international geopolitical western policies disclosed the secrets of Indian partition. Even before partition Northern India (recently Pakistan), had been providing an easy access. Recently it has become very important because it connects Europe and Australia for a joint project of huge geo-economics, geopolitical and strategic values as well as Indian Ocean has been serving as a triangle course for trade among Asia, Africa and Australia since ancient period. Seeing this important triangle West started to change the geopolitical direction under its foreign policies. For the achievement of these motives, ulterior planning was started. This planning had been travelling gradually with the start of World War I but remained underground. When World War II started, the West took it serious and with the start of war, underground powers increased its activities to get control over the global geopolitics and started to pressurize several powers involved the war, purpose was to get control over the choke points of the strategic value for maritime traffic and monopoly in the Asia, Central Asia, Gulf and Middle East through oceans’ trading activities as well as stationing Naval Bases. In this research paper all origin perspectives of British India (Subcontinent) partition, under the geopolitical realities, according to the research requisites, are tried to highlight the global geopolitical applicable laws which were necessary to fulfill the required changing global geographical monopoly requisites.
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