The necklace that was torn apart by the partition of India and Pakistan
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| India has left and Pakistan has right side |
India and Pakistan were not always separate countries, they were one.
Its history was the same.
Their culture and heritage were the same.
When the country was divided, not only the land was divided, the border between the states was not drawn but also the common heritage and history was divided.
Citizens of both countries fought for needles, pencils, chairs and pets during the partition.
Partition stories
This division was a division of historical heritage.
A necklace was found in the excavations of Moenjodaro, a city known as the cradle of Indus Valley Civilization, which saw a tug of invade between India and Pakistan.
In 1920, when India was not independent, India and Pakistan were one and the same.
During excavations in Sindh province, the remains of a city about five thousand years old were found.
It became known as the Indus Valley Civilization.
The excavated city was an example of human development in itself.
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| A necklace was found during the excavation |
The discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization gave the British slave Indians a reason to be proud of their history.
Now the people of India can say that their history is thousands of years old like the civilizations of Egypt, Greece and China.
Pandit Johar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, wrote about the Moin couple in his book 'Discovery of India'. He says that standing on the mound of Moenjodaro, he realized that they are the product of a civilization more than five thousand years old, a civilization that is constantly changing.
During excavations in Moenjodaro, a statue of a dancing woman, a statue of a priest and thousands of other objects were found, but nothing was found intact.
During the excavation, a gold necklace was also found in which precious stones were encrusted in gold chains. This was the only thing found in Moenjodaro which was intact. Sudeshna Goha is a historian and archaeologist.
She says that very few jewels were found in the excavations of the Indus Valley Civilization, but this gold necklace was very unusual.
It was a thrilling discovery.
The necklace was found in a copper vessel. It is thought that the house belonged to a jeweler.
According to Sudeshna Goha, the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization was a great thing for India.
The Indus Valley Civilization is a common heritage of India and Pakistan because before 1947, the two countries were one and the same.
But when the partition was announced in June 1947, people who had lived together for centuries began to fight among themselves over small things.
A few months ago, 60 ducks brought from England were also distributed between the two countries.
The division of elephants too
An elephant named Jai Mani was handed over to East Bengal by the Forest Department and the people of India protested against it.
The elephant mahout had decided to stay in India. With the division of the country, small things were also divided into two parts.
For example, 21 typewriters, 31 pens, 16 armchairs, 125 paper bags and 31 chairs for officers were sent to Pakistan from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This is a small example.
After the partition of the country, the capital of the British government Delhi became the capital of India while Pakistan made Karachi its capital.
Karachi was the capital of a province.
There were not as many offices as a single country needed, no space, and no equipment needed to run the government.
Pakistan's new government faced problems with papers, files, pens and pins.
You may be wondering, when the two countries were distributing small things like pens, pencils and pens, how could they have distributed such valuable and historical things?
It is important for every country to have its own history but India and Pakistan had no separate history so how could they divide it now?
With the partition of the country, Moenjodaro, the largest center of civilization in the Indus Valley, became part of Pakistan. Pakistan had no history of its own.
In such a situation, it became necessary for him to redefine the Indus Valley and tell it its history different from India, but for that he should have found things to be found in excavations.
Wazira Zamindar says that after partition, the civilization of the Indus Valley needed to be redefined and efforts were made to make it a source of Pakistani pride.
Its purpose was to prove that Pakistan has a glorious history completely different from India which is the history of Muslim Pakistan and not of Hindu India.
That is why after partition, attempts were made to write books like the 5,000 year old history of Pakistan.
An attempt was made to write a history that never existed.
Who got what?
Historian Sudeshna Goha says that when the country was being divided, India also laid claim to more than a thousand items found in the Indus Valley.
Under the principle adopted for the distribution of goods, 60 per cent of the goods were to go to India and 40 per cent to Pakistan.
They included a statue of a Moenjodaro dancer and a yogi immersed in meditation. At the same time, that precious necklace was also included in it.
When the statue of a dancing girl came to India, the statue of a yogi belonged to Pakistan.
Now it's time for a gold necklace.
It was the only thing that survived the excavation. When the distribution of this necklace was not agreed upon, the officers of this clay also divided this necklace like the country.
It was also divided into two parts, one part to Pakistan and one part to India.
The Indian portion is housed in the National Museum, Delhi.
Historian Sudeshna Goha calls this division a tragedy of history.
She says that history has been torn in two. It is a pity that no one is ashamed.
Once in the United States, an offer was made to combine the two pieces for an exhibition, but India refused to give away its necklace. This necklace and its two pieces found in the excavation of Moin Jodro are the biggest witnesses of the partition of India and Pakistan.
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