tisonlyi

Faith based schools can be publicly funded, at least in part, within the uk education system.

I'm not defending or promoting that.

And in the UK, we don't spend Dollars, regardless of what you may think.

Also, I will not enter into a debate on the governmentally disjointed landmass of india - ruled under a myriad of princedoms - which became India through the ruthless rule of the raj, it's bribery and it's rail network, which became india and pakistan, which later became india, pakistan and bangladesh, save to say that the prefered option for the british was for India to remain as one whole nation they congealed, not for partition.

Partition happened, from my learning and reading, entirely down to the fact that the Congress party (Nehru in particular) decided that there should be no special governmental arrangements for the areas that were overwhelmingly muslim.

Jinnah, Mountbatten and pretty much all others involved were forced down the road to partition through the intransigence and arrogance of the Congress Party, believing that it alone could speak for all hindus, muslims and sikhs.

If you want to trade history, or irrelevant insults about our respective nations histories, we can do that elsewhere.

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