NCERT’s ‘Partition Horrors’ Module Identifies Three Culprits: Jinnah, Congress, Mountbatten
Sanjay Maurya | 15 August 2025 | Hindustan Times
A new special module created by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) on “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” (August 14) holds three people responsible: “Jinnah, who demanded it; second, the Congress, which accepted it; and third, Mountbatten, who implemented it”.
This quote is part of a section in the module, titled Culprits of the Partition. The section also features a quote by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, from a speech in July 1947: “We have come to a stage when we must either accept division or face continued conflict and chaos. Partition is bad. But whatever the price of unity, the price of civil war would be infinitely greater.”…