Roots of terror in Pakistan

The Indian leadership has recently taken to describing Pakistan as the "epicentre of terror" in South Asia, and begun demanding that it should stop exporting terrorists to India. This has been its robust response to the November 26, terrorist attacks last year on India's premier industrial centre Mumbai.
It may be recalled that when the Indian Parliament had been attacked in December 2001, by Muslim terrorists, the Indian government had treated that as an officially inspired act, and created a major crisis that had lasted 10 months, with the bulk of armies of both countries ranged in a tense eyeball to eyeball confrontation.
The South Asian subcontinent, that had become a jewel in the British crown through conquest over the 18th and 19th centuries, is a culturally and ethnically diverse land mass containing a fifth of the human race that is characterised by a bewildering multiplicity of religions and languages. Nearly 80 percent of the population professes Hinduism, which is unique for its caste system. Even now 400 millions of the 800 million Hindus have a sub-human status and remain mired in poverty.
The Muslims, were 25 percent of India's 1940 population of 400 million, and demanded a separate homeland in 1940 after Hindu-dominated governments formed under the 1935 Government of India Act violated their basic rights and sensitivities. Militant Hindu organisations resorted to violence against them that only exacerbated the divide, so that Pakistan was born in 1947 among some of the worst communal riots that involved massacres of an estimated one million people, causing a virtual exchange of population, notably in the Punjab. The boundary award by Sir Cyril Radcliffe was manifestly unfair, awarding Muslim majority areas such as Gurdaspur district to India to enable land access to the Muslim majority state of Kashmir. With the actual encouragement of Lord Mountabatten, who had become Governor General of India after its independence, the Hindu Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India, violating the fundamental principle underlying the partition of the subcontinent, and thus gave birth to the dispute over the state that has been a major source of tension between Pakistan and India.
India's unwillingness to accept the Two Nation Theory that led to the emergence of Pakistan as the homeland of Muslims remains a basic cause of tension and hostility between the two counties. Here, it is necessary to recall the efforts of Hindu militants to overcome the impression that Muslims are warlike while Hindus are lacking in this respect. The foundation of the Rashtriya Swayam-Sewak Sangh (RSS or National Volunteer Corps) in 1925 was inspired by the rise of Nazis in Germany under Hitler, and was dedicated to transforming Hindus into an aggressive and dominant element in Bharat Varsha (India).