On Saturday 11 Aug 2007 9:56 pm, Dave Kumar wrote: > http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/08/13/070813crbo_books_mis >hra
Thanks for posting this. There are some minor factual inaccuracies, but I write to express my delight at seeing the author echo something that I have felt and stated in various places - i.e that the birth of Pakistan was the first blow in favor of pan-Islamic fundamentalism The last paragraph of the article you linked says: "Meeting Mountbatten a few months after partition, Churchill assailed him for helping Britain’s “enemies,” “Hindustan,” against “Britain’s friends,” the Muslims. Little did Churchill know that his expedient boosting of political Islam would eventually unleash a global jihad engulfing even distant New York and London. The rival nationalisms and politicized religions the British Empire brought into being now clash in an enlarged geopolitical arena; and the human costs of imperial overreaching seem unlikely to attain a final tally for many more decades. ♦" shiv
