India should have given more to Pakistan at Partition’

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Kaun se paisay bhai? Hum toh khud tum se mang rahain hain!

Your share of the pre-partition debt. That is what I can make out.

Pre-partition India had both assets and liabilities. You know about the assets and how Rs. 50 millions has been withheld but the liabilities were also to be divided.

It seems you never owned up to yours.

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

At the time of division there was a cash balance of 4billion(which is 400crore according to Indian language and 4Arab for Pakistanis) ruppees in the reserve Bank of India which was to be divided between India and Pakistan in the ratio of 17 parts to India and 5 to Pakistan- Sir General Frank Messervy .

I don't know about other Indian languages but in Hindi we use the same nomenclature, hazaar, lakh, Karod, Arab, Kharab etc. So a typical North Indian will not say 400 Karod but 4 Arab. There is little or no difference in the street version of the two languages.

It may change a bit with time as words from other Indian languages start mixing more and the language of the Indian films undergoing some changes. As of now I have no problem understanding a Pakistani TV program in Urdu. Except for a few imported heavy Farasi words, it is no different from the language spoken in North India.

I believe most other Indian languages also have the same concept of having a separate unit for the same amounts (every hundred times) though the exact words may be different.

[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by vinod2070

I don't know about other Indian languages but in Hindi we use the same nomenclature, hazaar, lakh, Karod, Arab, Kharab etc. So a typical North Indian will not say 400 Karod but 4 Arab. There is little or no difference in the street version of the two languages.


Your share of the pre-partition debt. That is what I can make out.
Pre-partition India had both assets and liabilities. You know about the assets and how Rs. 50 millions has been withheld but the liabilities were also to be divided.
It seems you never owned up to yours.

( Good to know that people in India (esp north) are regardful of the Sau karoor is One Arab point but why oh why do I always hear Indians saying ''Sau Karoor this Sau karoor That.....?'')

Hahahaha
Where do you come up with all this Pre partition debt?
There wasnt any prepartition debt to be cleared between Pakistan and India. Wasnt Pakistan part of India once? And how can someone come up with, ''oh this part of the country owes the other part such and such amount''
Its like two brothers living in one house(which was once owned by their parents) eating the same food,using the same utilities and then one day they go their own ways but when the younger brother asks for his share in the house the older brother says ''You already owe me money for the food that you have been eating in this house''....
Could you please get some unbiased factual documentation to support the notion that you have put forward? I am asking Pakistan owing India ?
Until then .....

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

( Good to know that people in India (esp north) are regardful of the Sau karoor is One Arab point but why oh why do I always hear Indians saying ''Sau Karoor this Sau karoor That.....?'')

Not too many people do that. There was once a Dev Anand movie with that name.''Sau karod" was used for some time to denote our population as it increased from "Assi karod" and "Nabbe Karod", just a natural progression.

Hahahaha
Where do you come up with all this Pre partition debt?
There wasnt any prepartition debt to be cleared between Pakistan and India. Wasnt Pakistan part of India once? And how can someone come up with, ''oh this part of the country owes the other part such and such amount''
Its like two brothers living in one house(which was once owned by their parents) eating the same food,using the same utilities and then one day they go their own ways but when the younger brother asks for his share in the house the older brother says ''You already owe me money for the food that you have been eating in this house''....
Could you please get some unbiased factual documentation to support the notion that you have put forward? I am asking Pakistan owing India ?
Until then .....

The debt was not between India and Pakistan. It was the government liabilities which were also supposed to be divided along with the assets. You can think of them as loans taken by the GOI before partition.

I shared a link for the news. It says that our budget carries an entry for this from 1951 for Rs. 300 crore (And no "Riba" has been added on that for 58 years!).

Your analogy is a bit flawed. In this case the elder brother is asking the younger one to share his part of the family loan, not pay for the food eaten earlier.

[Lady Macbeth]

[QUOTE=vinod2070;3233]

The debt was not between India and Pakistan. It was the government liabilities which were also supposed to be divided along with the assets. You can think of them as loans taken by the GOI before partition.

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http://www.expressindia.com/latest-n...-crore/485726/

Fair enough that GOI had these loans prepartition and Pakistan should contribute but.....
Errr.....some reliable independent source please Vinod.

[vinod2070]

I actually never read about this till some days back so I doubt I hav come across a "neutral" source ever.

The fact that it is in our budget for 6 decades pretty much convinces me of the authenticity of the story.

[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by vinod2070

I actually never read about this till some days back so I doubt I hav come across a "neutral" source ever.

The fact that it is in our budget for 6 decades pretty much convinces me of the authenticity of the story.

Hahahah...thats the funny thing none of us had read of this before you brought it up as well.....Hmmmmm so your conviction relies on India's budget deficit/ superfluity for the last 60years. Good answer but just not the right one. Give it another go,until then as I said .......

[vinod2070]

I am talking of the specific entry in the budget:

Pakistan is yet to clear a pre-partition debt of Rs 300 crore to India, which has been carrying forward year after year in its Budget account as a "liability". The Budget books refer to this Rs 300 crore as "amount due from Pakistan on account of share of pre-partition debt."

[rising.pakistan]

how will india give :)) you have to grab from them yeh banye hindu kabhi kuch nhi dain gey

[vinod2070]

We will grab back our land from the invaders.