Would those ten million refugees have been better off if the people they were fleeing were their fellow voting citizens in a democracy instead?
Obviously yes, but it didn’t happen. The provinces were granted the right to genocide expel, ethnically cleanse and to destroy their history, by simple majority vote. And they exercised it with 2 million dead.
In 2026, it’s a huge boon to India to not have Pakistan within its body politic. It’s like having broken up with a finance who ended up becoming a self destructive addict. Same for Bangladesh, even with all the people who died in the independence war.
This is not about Indian nationalism (which I don't really care about) or whether they should be unified countries (which I don't care about). This is about the forced mass migration of people from their homes and the resulting millions of deaths due to what is basically religious extremism.