PROPHECY OF PARTITION

However, the freedom we got was not what Netaji had intended it to be, although, he full well knew that should the INA fail to achieve independence for India before the war ended, the British would partition India and there would be no way to prevent it. This Netaji said to his ministers while in office and it clearly gives us his idea in advance as to the real reason behind the Partition that was to be in such an eventuality, that is, the British intention to divide India despite the later facade of Attlee's government that the British wished for a united India and that it was Jinnah's intransigence on the issue that did the act of amputation of India. Netaji was of the opinion that it was British politics that would do it and he was prophetically proved correct when the actual events unfolded. Jinnah or Gandhi or, for that matter, Nehru did not wield power over the provisions so much as the real power-wielders, the British did. So, it is the British who bear the responsibility for this treacherous act more than anybody else and this was so well articulated in his cabinet meeting by Netaji way before history had been actually enacted. Jai Hind!