"1 million""The widely-held estimate of the number of people killed in the brutal violence that followed Partition of India. Some estimates put the toll at double this figure (2M)." - Hindustan Times
This was one of the last significant gift of Britishers to India.
These people might or might not be the freedom fighters, but surely they didn't die for the Indian independence. They died as a result of the kind of freedom that we got from the Britishers on August 15th, 1947. Actually, they were massacred by the anxious and defeated aspirations of the brutal imperialism of the great Britain.
None of them were the martyrs of the freedom struggle. They were just massacred. They were the collateral damage happened to make an imperialist empire (British) and a small number of power hungry people (in India) happy.
Neither S.C. Bose, Bhagat Singh, or C.S. Azad may have agreed to this kind of deal. In fact, M.K. Gandhi was not at all happy with it, as evident from the fact that he did not participate in the Independence Day celebrations on 15th August 1947.
I am happy to see India independent, I am a patriotic Indian, but 15th August is just an important date in the Indian and the world history which marks our freedom and also marks the deaths and massacres of more than a million of innocents.
15th August is important, crucial BUT hugely gloomy. It would keep haunting the British empire in future and may keep reminding the citizens to realize how bad the intentions of opportunist politicians prove to be.
Happy Independence Day, RIP all the collateral damages.
Vande Mataram!
Waiting for the real "India Day", i.e. 26th January, which actually marks the start of a new SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and ensured that we get JUSTICE, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY, and all other fundamental rights and freedoms.
