Muhammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the ‘All India Muslim League’, wanted a separate country for the Muslims of the ‘Indian Sub-continent’. Instead of getting a country, he got 3 countries having significant Muslim populations. Before the ‘Partition of India’, the population of the sub-continent was probably 450 million people. One third, or 150 million people, [...]
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