Khandro
"Partition in India, is another example of religious peoples being manipulated by politicians with disastrous consequences"
With respect, I suggest you learn your history.
The idea of Pakistan was not instigated by British imperialists, or even by particularly powerful politicians. It was instigated by the Muslim League as early as December 1930, when in a Presidential Address Muhammed Iqbal called for partition. You can read the address here:
" I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India. "
http://www.columbia.e...s/txt_iqbal_1930.html
Later on, as it became clear that the British intended to leave India after WW2, the Muslim League became increasingly insistent on partition. In 1940, it passed the Lahore Resolution, calling for a separate Muslim state:
http://en.wikipedia.o...ki/Lahore_Resolution.
It's a complex narrative, obviously, but the story is NOT one of politicians artificially seeking to manipulate believers - the partition was insitgated and actively campaigned for by the faithful, and were eventually given in to by a government which wanted to leave as soon as it could.