This is very conditional statement.
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Replying to @rupasubramanya @i_contemplate_ and
It has to be tho.. real life wud be like that. Signals from community leaders wud be sent, and received, but exceptions wud exist
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Replying to @omarali50 @rupasubramanya and
The 14% can be considered a stratified random sample of say top 25% of the populatn. That's a big chunk that definitely supported partition.
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Replying to @Shapiro_WIlk @omarali50 and
It was not a random sample! It was those who met the franchise requirement. Clearly unrepresentative of the population.
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Replying to @rupasubramanya @Shapiro_WIlk and
I am in position of agreeing w both. Not a random sample, but not unrepresentative of view (as far as views were there on this topic..i.e.
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Replying to @omarali50 @rupasubramanya and
i.e. real twist is that many ppl likely HAD NO VIEWS on this topic. Till they learned of it. Which way wud they hv gone? Never sure, but ..
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Replying to @omarali50 @rupasubramanya and
it is likely that they wud hav gone with own community's elite. Very hard to see them making common cause against own elite. But intrstng..
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Replying to @omarali50 @Shapiro_WIlk and
But doesn't tell how would they would have voted had they been democratically empowered. Can't assert that they all vehemently supported Pak
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Replying to @rupasubramanya @omarali50 and
Democratic empowerment in a quasi-feudal society is immaterial. Suffice to say the Muslim working classes would have followed the elites.
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Replying to @kaeshour @rupasubramanya and
Nonetheless why do Indians rue Partition? It is arguably the best thing that happened to India since Gupta Empire's fall to Hunas in 6c CE.
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Hardly so as there was no population swap. Now to face another partition in a few decades.
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