The Partition of India — and before it the Partition of Bengal — were among the most consequential acts of British imperial cartography, with the former leaving countless dead, a subcontinent in perennial trauma and perhaps even helping create some of the geopolitical conditions from which pan-global Islamist terrorism later emerged with a little help from Uncle Sam. Ergo, there is a little schadenfreude in seeing talk of partition engulf the country that facilitated it: the United Kingdom, or should we call it the Divided Kingdom?
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