Partition Politics and Power Asymmetries: Reasons Behind Muslim-Majority Areas Were Not Fully Incorporated into Pakistan

Abstract

The paper dwells upon the causes of the failure of Muslim majority territories to be fully incorporated into Pakistan during the Partition of the British India in 1947 with considerable emphasis being laid on the politics of partition, power asymmetries and geographical location versus demographic logic as such. The research, which is founded on the Geopolitical Theory, Although the Ideological justification of the formation of Pakistan was founded based on Two Nation Theory. The paper is going to be premised on both primary and secondary data based on a qualitative research approach; some of the primary data sources include archival reports, reports of the boundary commissions, political memoirs, and scholarly interpretations. The qualitative approach is applicable in formulating an in-depth understanding of the specifics of historical contingencies, reality of decision-making, and the geopolitical reason that informed the territorialization of Pakistan that was not achieved.