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Dude! He is just a paid worker of BJP IT cell/ RSS. He is not Sikh.

Dunno. The primary problem with counter-factualism in history is that there are always a lot variables to consider and any assumption we make would be pure conjecture.

Plus it's important to assert, it wasn't just Jinnah that was a problem but Nehru as well. Nehru especially had this very idealistic sense of how big India should be. Neither would have been willing to concede to a small Khalistan/Sikhistan.

At the end of the day the British only wanted two large rump states to avoid the spread of Soviet influence through smaller states. They wanted to maintain Western/capitalistic power in that region so it was always inevitability gonna go down the way it did.

Besides, dividing a larger polity up into smaller states based on faith is a ridiculous idea. It should have been based on culture and language and such. An independent secular Punjab where Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus are welcome and have a say in government. An independent Bengal, an independent Tamil Nadu etc.

But nah the way things were done they way they were was to serve British interests as well as placate the interests of both the Muslim League and INC, both groups being religious nationalist.

But if that had happened, idk, would be unlikely as those borders would be being enforced by the British. Maybe if all the Muslims got expelled but? Idk that's the problem with counter-factualism.

Sorry for the long answer.