💥MAJOR correction - Partition wasn't between Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India but Muslim Pakistan who thought they can't coexist with Hindus and a Secular India comprising of Hindus, Muslims, Christians etc. It is reflected in the present day population of the 2 Nations too. While India today has almost as many Myslims as Pakistan = 200 million... Pakistan's non Muslim population has shrunk from 15% to 1%

India no longer considers Pakistan as a formidable threat, all eyes are on leveling up with the Chinese now.

9:14 As an Indian I would like to clarify that I do believe India is not afraid of any dragon or whatever animal that is; if any misadventures occurs on our territories, we won't step back to take on China or pakistan or both combined. Aksai Chin is Indian territory and India will take it back one day.

Critical Correction: Indus water treaty doesn’t allocate water equally to both nations. India is only allowed to use only 20% of the water and India has to share 80% of the water to Pakistan through this this treaty. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Waters_Treaty

My grandfather moved to india with his family after the partition when he was young. They lived in Bangladesh at the time and had to smuggle themselves upriver on a small fishing boat. Their only possessions were my great grandmother’s jewellery and they survived on that and did a few odd jobs for months until my great grandfather got a job at a railway station. They lost their land, homes and all their savings. It was a hard time for everyone.

Country for Hindus was not created from partition It was created for Muslims. Dozens of ethnicities, languages and religions still exist in India. Britisher's biggest blunder!

If u study the politics of india and Pakistan, there's a huge difference, india always wanted to be a secular prosperous state and Pakistan always wanted to be an Islamic Republic. They both succeded, india doing well independently and indians doing good in every sectors all around the world. Pakistan also doing good in global jihad and terrorism, must not forget ISIS got most of It's weapon, training and funds from Pakistan.

Major correction- The Indus water treaty gives Pakistan 70% of the water flowing from the Indus river tributaries in terms of volume, the number of tributaries are divided equally but the tributaries given to Pakistan hold a significantly higher amount of water, leading to droughts in the Indian region.

I will admit India has slipped sometimes such as when they had an authoritarian government under Indira Gandhi but I would still root for India in the event of conflict with Pakistan In India you've had non Hindus become, billionaires, celebrities, government officials and military servicemen leaders You cannot do the same in Pakistan. Over there non Muslims are officially recognized by the central government of Islamabad as not people but instead a only ever afforded a condescending tolerance and thats on a good day

Perfect lunch break video

During 65 war there were territorial changes . Indian soldiers were almost at Lahore when ceasefire was announced and US being US , asked both countries to pull back to their original borders . Only because its adorable ally Pakistan was at the losing end .

As Indians ,we are careful about Pakistan but we are more increasingly worried about China's role if war breaks out between the 2 countries and the possibility of all out 2 front war 🤔. Would like an analysis between India and china war ,though unlikely but possible because of increasing Chinese incursions . By the way , this was a very good and easy analysis of the complex issue 👍

India: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man???

In the 1971 war, U.S.A and U.K had come to fight with India from Pakistan's side and was also supporting Pakistan's genocide in United nations. India got 93000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered even after U.S. and U.K came. Because USSR supported that Time INDIA.

One correction Simon, The "Cold Start Doctrine" genesis lies in the 1987 Operation Brasstacks, conducted under the Indian Army COAS General KV Krishna Rao. It was put on hold in the 90s but in 2001 after Indian Parliament Terror Attack, India mobilized over 700k Troops along the International Border, but it took nearly 2 months to achieve the offensive posturing while Pakistan managed to mobilize 300k of its own troops. After Months of Skirmishes and Artillery Duels, India had to back down (under US Pressure). India's performance in the 2001-02 Border Standoff with Pakistan (codename: Operation Parakram), forced the Indian Armed Forces to re evaluate their strategy and restart the Cold Start Doctrine.

As a Pakistani, trust me we don't want a war on the contrary our survival is now dependent on our relations with India. If we aren't able to work things out with them our economic troubles will eventually break our country.

This conflict is the perfect example of how nuclear deterrence and MAD paradoxically prevents large scale wars and destruction better than any treaties or economic integration or other incentives could.

By the way Simon not to sound like a Hindu ultranationalist or British apologist but the idea of partition itself was explicitly stated by Mohammed Jinnah for Pakistan

Can I make a recommendation? When mentioning numbers, could you portray them on the video as well? It would make following easier.

Fun fact* Andaman and nicobar islands,Laksdweep islands are part of India.

In his view , British are so generous....😂. .... He sounds so funny.....

I don't think people who can't afford petrol or wheat can afford a war.

I really wonder if the team behind this video has real world military expertise and experience 😂😂😂

This video is all about how to condense the Mariana Trench and reduce it to the size of a puddle. So many key details are left out that it's baffling.

Pakistan will need new maps but this time even less ink will do the job😅😅

My grandfather, and grandmother were both about 10 when the partition happened. Neither of them spoke much about it. Both of them were orphans, raised by missionaries. My grandfather told me one story. He used to have to take the train from Lahore, to Agra (Pakistan to India) for boarding school. He would pretend to be blind and sell tea on the trains so they would leave him alone. He told me he passed so many trains that had been burned filled with people, and he could never forget the smell.

As an Indian, let's hope this war never happens and our relationship with Pakistan improves over time, and we live with each other as friends, not enemies 😊

The water treaty is not equal India only uses 20% of the water and Pakistan uses 80%. This is the issue which is to be settled with the new water treaty. Love your videos by the way.

India should never fight Pakistan. It would be like a young inspiring man get bitten by a rabid dog in the 18th century. Dog would perish but so would the young fine man.

Recently a pak army general said we don't have fuel for our tanks🗿

India going between India and Pakistan West: Money 💰 Money 💰 China: here they go again.

1:30 - Chapter 1 - The knife edge 7:05 - Chapter 2 - The spark 10:35 - Chapter 3 - Weighing the odds 12:45 - Chapter 4 - Armageddon

I found this Warographics episode to be extremely light on actual content and insight. It was dissapinting and not up to Simon's usual standards with these types of releases.

Splendid Video, However aside from the obvious misconception of Hindu India, There is a LOT of history when speaking about partition as you said. Politics was at play not only by UK, but USSR, USA and even Indian Politicians. It's much too complicated but whatever happened was done intentionally. Keep Up the good work

How come the newer Pakistani weapons platforms weren’t mentioned such as the J10 and Al Khalid tanks in the fighter jet and tanks discussion?

12:05 you've shown this clip twice in the video. it's actually an Egyptian military squad participating during India's republic day parade. but we got the essence

Pin this please Recently a renowned Pakistani journalist hamid mir said that there ex army chief told them that Pakistani army can never afford a war with india

FALSE!! Indus Water Treaty of 1960: The treaty gives India 20% of the water from the Indus River System and the rest 80% to Pakistan. IT IS NOT DIVIDED EQUALLY AS MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO!

civil war wouldve been bliss compared to what actually happened during partition

The world - OMG India and Pakistan would go to war. Meanwhile Indians - BC yahan garmi ke mausam mein baarish, saala cooler nikaale ya barsati? Gambhir aur Kohli fir lad liye.. 😂 (Why is it raining in summers, should we take out our coolers or raincoats? Gambhir and Kohli quarrelled again after an IPL match.)😂

Both nations want to avoid war, as the result of nuclear exchange is obviously the end of both nations. So even a(nother) border skirmish is extremely unlikely to escalate far beyond that. Both nations have extensive political connections to prevent such a war. Also the Rutgers study that claims "2 billion" would die from India Pakistan nuclear war was flawed as it models things like volcanic eruptions to simulate climate shifts following a nuclear war. The soot ejected by volcanoes does not quite aerosol the same way as soot ejected by nuclear strikes. Lastly the "2 billion" figure requires 250 100kt bombs which not even India + Pakistan combined have. Both India and Pakistan's delivery systems each cap out at about 40 kt each. The "2 billion die if they go to war" is not only factually wrong, it's blatant scaremongering disinformation. You don't have to lie about nuclear war for people to understand that it's really, really bad.

There's a small correction in your video. India always stood as a secular country while across the broder it was different. Also, please keep in mind the escalation and cross border strikes done by army and air force in response to the terrorist attacks done by Pakistan.

Not now, India/Pakistan, we’re kind of busy.

There is no such thing as peace when dealing with Islam

“In depth...” *only 15 minutes in length*

The recent one retired army chief of Pakistan said we dont have fuel for tanks forget about war

Indus Water treaty, didn't distribute the water equally. The treaty gave 80% water to Pakistan and 20% to India

13:07 its not the mumbai attacks its the parliament attacks you are wrong here

Good intro to the problem but definitely one that can be explored so much more. From partition and the genocide that followed, to the Kashmir issue, to the military situation, to Pakistan's instability and the Chinese threat, each of those elements have so many intricacies that hopefully we can see more videos on in the future.

For a comprehensive report from pre-independance till future conflict you have put together a great educational video. Thanks. One can only add ones thoughts or back one of your presumptions. People (globally) forget the Pak Occupied Kashmir region is hilly and forested and there will be barely a few km of gains unless the present inflationary circumstances cause the local population to revolt en masse. Spectacular gains (due to perceived armoured superiority) mean nothing in the Central sector (Rajasthan/Punjab) as the lines of the IB would have to be abided by, post the ceasefire- so to retain the gains, India would have to ensure that politically Pakistan did not exist as a nation but as 4 or 5 new nations. So India would not only have to work with (say the US) to secure the Pak nuclear arsenal BUT also work on creating 4 or 5 potential regional satraps who would step in and create the 'new nations' before the nukes go off or a ceasefire undoes all of what gains India is assumed to have made by D7. India hasn't been particularly brilliant in handling the last air battle by the Kashmir region, amplified by the inability to predict, let alone stop, the 27 fighters that raised Indian in the morning after Balakote. And then to lose a pilot behind enemy lines who disregarded the billion dollar AWACs... This display of lack of vision and utter disregard to the multiple billions spent on modernisation (if pilots continue to disregard and not listen to AWACs) does not look good for India. Small and 'little' as Pak may seem, India has always lost territory where it counted in 65 and 71 before it's logistical might bailed it out. Akhnoor, Chhamb- Jaurian being a prime example. India seems not to realise that they gave up 90000 POWs - because in part the Pak Forces were at the Akhnoor bridge (1971) and held the entire region north(Rajouri, Bhimber, Poonch) hostage. I have tremendous faith in the bravery and spirit of Indian Armed Forces, who would be on the line, but it's when the leadership crosses the ranks of Colonel and moves above that the leadership becomes suspect. Pakistan may be whatever, their men in uniform have always been upto a good fight and I don't see anything ending quick in the next round. A quick exchange of nuclear weapons (say 5 or 6 detonations) would as you say rightly be something more worrisome than any reason to go to war in the first place. Good write up. Cheers.

This guy knows how to build an audience.

It's really commendable that you dared to make this video with such shallow knowledge about almost everything you tried to discuss. Kudos 😂

For me It’s the fear that a comprehensive economic collapse could force a government to seek war as a way of uniting the population - it’s hardly a new idea - and then you either have preemptive nuclear strikes or the escalation that leads to nuclear strikes.

Reality: No one will win But humanity will lose

Can you also make a video on a nuclear war between US and Russia?

Sir, war breaking out between India and Pakistan is far less likely at present than one in Europe. And the first nuclear winter would almost invariably start from that continent.

When Russia attacks Ukraine you call it an invasion but when Pakistan attacks India you say India and Pakistan went to war as if it was some sort of mutually agreed play-date. Why?

9023 AD: Archeologists will say 'there used to be a country called Pakistan here"!

Unless the nukes start flying India is clappin cheeks

Indus water treaty States pakishtan could use 80 percent of the water Not 50-50 between India and pakisthan.

During the cold war many times more nukes were tested/fired than are in the combined arsenals of India and Pakistan. Didn't cause an ice age.

Waraghpaics: 1.Asks a question 2.Fills you with existential dread 3.Proceed to debunk that and say all is fine and the odds of that happening are close to none Kuzkurgatz : i see you are a man of culture as well

Lovely video but you forgot to mention how the British screwed the partition process because they are trying to run from India as soon as possible. I hope you will make another video mentioning this or maybe dive deeper into this.

As much as the video was great, the reason for partition as always has been mis represented by western channels, indian founding fathers categorically rejected the idea that as pakistan was created on the basis of religion (which actually was the demand of a single party and person i.e jinnah) that what remained shall be a hindu state, india was founded as secular nation for all religions cultures, languages and castes. At the time of independence more muslims decided to live in india than move to pakistan, india still had a greater number pf muslims than pakistan till very recently when pakistan surpassed because of its higher birth ratio and as far as idea goes that religion was biggest problem and not culture, look what happened 24 years after that, bangladesh won its indenpendence after a bloody struggle as even they rejected the idea that a nation can be built solely on the concept of religion

In the start, where you have shown Indian troops marching - that was actually the marching contingent of Egyptian Army in 2023 republic parade.

Half information is incorrect 👍

How he justifies that British were really worried about what would happen. Lol. Brits wanted India to fail, and set us up by dividing us!

U should first learn about the ancient Kashmir... About its beautiful culture and tradition. About Kashmir's religion. How it gave the world many the mathamatics and zero and texts. And how radical muslims destroyed it.

right now Punjab is becoming increasingly similar to Kashmir because they have also been exploited by the Indian Government a lot ever since the partition

Wait ....wait Are we really taking what people from New Jersey say seriously now?

Looking back at our records and the current military equipment India would be changing the world map as it did previously in 1971

We had a similar scenario as an emergency resolution in model UN once . Seemed very serious.

The explanation of why the British separated India into Muslim and Hindo is total bs.

Both have nukes pointing at each other. What joy.

If I recall the conflict itself is so highly anticipated by both governments that diplomatic machinery between the two is very connected

2:09 British feared ?? " divide and rule" their strategy

You forgot to mention Tejas fighter jets, and the 6th gen fighter jet in making. You also forgot to mention the Russian S400s.

June going into August this year all has been revealed and recalled over and over again

Can you do Kargil and it's impact

Pakistan would lose all conventional battles and be forced to either use thier nuclear weapons OR encourage China to intervene directly...this conflict is one of the nightmare things we have to live with, sadly

"The british feared it would lead to chaos" bro they started the chaos and split in order to weaken India. The map was drawn by a person who never set foot in India.

On the brighter side, an atomic exchange between these two would lead to a nuclear winter that would counteract global warming

Don't think both countries would ever go full scale on each other as the border consists of impregnable mountains, vast desert, River tributaries and huge urban centers making it near impossible for any side to gain significant advances into others territory without being retaliated by vaporising nuclear strikes, Ironically it's only this nuclear strength of both sides which doesn't allow them to go for another round 😅

India has access to one of the most powerful militaries in the world. Pakistan's military could be charitably described as "out dated."

World leaders, bankers, and defense contractors would be stoked.

We had the Mahabharat war The Aihole inscription of Pulakeshin II, dated to Saka 556 = 634 CE, claims that 3735 years have elapsed since the Bharata battle, putting the date of Mahābhārata war at 3137 BCE. Concept of Bharat was thousands of years old. Ww1 brit promised independence. Reneged. WW2 brit promised independence. Was thinking to renege again. The navy put their boot up their pearly white derriere s. They left.

Finally a topic that I wanted Warographics to cover!

In the words of the great Hershel Krustovski.... ' what's the difference between Pakistan and a pancake??.... I don't know any pancakes that got NUKED BY INDIA!!"

Nice topic but So many inaccuracies. 13:07 parliament attack not mumbai indis water treaty states pak 80 india 20 bot 50 50 . etc

This video is 1 decade late, but nice entertainment value.

Ah...the age old British strategy of divide and rule classicaly explained by a Brit as a "mere inability of the newly formed and obviously inferior people to govern themsleves". They ruled the subcontinent for 200 years without a major hindu muslim conflict for hells sake. What rational person would create a country with 2 parts on either sides of Another huge country with no direct land connection between those parts, and hope all will go well....They wanted an unstable subcontinent and they got it.... The only comfort for me is that i got to be on the side which is better off for now...

I don't know how this war will start, but i can tell once it ends one nation will cease to exist and you know which one🙂

Rest in peace to those that passed away.

The British actually sought to divide Hindus and Muslims of India in an effort that started in 1888. The Hindus and Muslims had together fought against the British in the first war of independence (1857) which shook the empire. So the British played on to some fringe/latent anti Hindu tendencies amongst the Muslims and tried to create a division. They largely failed until the emergence of Gandhi and then Jinnah. In Gandhi, they found the perfect fool to further their designs and in Jinnah they found the shrewdest figurehead for a separate state. Churchill meticulously engineered the final blow just before independence and what was a fringe thing amongst Muslims became mainstream. You make it sound like the British were concerned about potential conflict whereas truth is that they were the masterminds.

Stand with India!

The world should recognize Kashmir as making decent to really good sweaters!

Political conflicts must be resolved by diplomacy

What if both countries join hands ? Who looses ,who Wins . Foods for thoughts. Jai Hind !

Please cover the rest of the India Pakistani wars especially the one that resulted in Bangladeshi independence

Wars and rumors of wars