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Most Indians say and believe that Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah were the two persons responsilble for the partion.

Having no choice left but to quit, the British was also equally responsible because of their Divide and Rule policy.

They wanted country to be troubled with communal riots which eventually took place in different parts of the country thus taking a huge toll on human life - killing three millions.

There was no alternative except partition of the country at that stage since Nehru was determined and so was Jinnah.

Mahatma Gandhi wanted to save the division and he even offered Jinnah to be the President of Undivided India and not press for the division which Jinnah agreed to.

BUT IT DID NOT SUIT the most ambitious and adamant political leader Jawahar Lal Nehru who had dreamt and wanted to be the first prime minister of Independent India.

He maneuvered with the connivance of his lieutenants and Lord Mountbatton, his friend, to sign the Partition of India Act against the wishes of Mahatma Gandhi and other nationalist leaders of the country.

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The main person responsible is Mohammed Ali Jinnah. He is the one who saw that Hindus and Muslims were not living very peacefully together. To Indians, he is evil because he was trying to split India but was he really? He really wanted to be a leader that was remembered but his friend Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru knew a Muslim would not lead a mostly Hindu nation (India ery well). Jinnah almost forced spliting into Pakistan but in the end, it helped stop a lot of wars. It seems that Jinnah forced it because he understood that a lot of wars would be stopped so he let Nehru became India's first Prime Minister. Instead he was Pakistan's first leader. Jinnah was killed by a crazy madman while he was Prime Minister.

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