Partition of India Indian subcontinent today. According to American scholar Allen McGrath many British leaders including the British Viceroy, Mountbatten, were unhappy over the partition of India. Lord Mountbatten of Burma had not only been accused of rushing the process through, but also is alleged to have influenced the Radcliffe Line in India's favour. The commission took longer to decide on a final boundary than on the partition itself. Thus the two nations were granted their independence even before there was a defined boundary between them. Some critics allege that British haste led to increased cruelties during the Partition. Because independence was declared
Artistic depictions of the partition of India problems they face because of Partition. Directed by Ritwik Ghatak "Komal Gandhar" (1961), the protagonists suffer from the same anguish: the separation from their home, on the other side of the border. It was first Hindi film to depict the partition of India, and Hindu fundamentalism, "Dharmputra" (1961) directed by Yash Chopra, two years after he made his debut with "Dhool Ka Phool" (1959), steeped in Nehruvian secularism, wherein a Muslim brings up an `illegitimate' Hindu child and featured classic song, "Tu Hindu banega na Musalman banega, insaan ki aulaad hai, insaan banega", the theme was reverse in this film