Incredibly sad that so many people in the imperial core can only learn about history when their superhero entertainment slop barely mentioned it. Watchmen had a scene showing the Tulsa massacre and millions of white people were like, "Wait, that happened?" I guess we need Spider Man 9 to have a scene detailing the Iran-Contra scandal for most people to realize that Reagan wasn't a great guy.
In India today we would say the British Raj was India. We call the partition the Partition of India
Yeah but is the lamentation as much that they got taken from India or that these two distinct entities with hard borders exist with peoples homes falling into one or the other? Do Pakistanis who had been in forced population transfers think of their old homes as Indian, or Pakistan/Muslim parts of the subcontinent that are occupied? Cause a better example than Ireland I realize would be Palestinians living mere miles from their homes taken during the Nakba, and I'm hard-pressed to think of one who would call their house that is currently occupied by settlers "Israel". It concedes the legitimacy of the theft of land
Honestly I'm not sure how it is thought of in Pakistan or Bangladesh. I was just sharing how it is thought of in India. There are territories still in dispute so people would say those areas are occupied I guess. My roommate is Pakistani so I'll ask him later today though
Funnily enough my grandfather got held up at the airport in Europe because his passport said his birth city was in India. Which was not the case anymore so the staff thought it was fake or something
Understandable, thanks for the Indian POV honestly