and the crucial province of punjab, hindus and sikhs have put job demanded partition. gandhi acquiesced. his assassination, which took place five and a half months after indian pakistan emerged as free as separate nations cannot at the hands of muslims who demanded pakistan, but at the hands of a group of hindus who saw him as a friend of the songs. gandhi's final go unsuccessful attempt to prevent partition was actually quite lincoln mike. historians have referred to lincolns quality assassinating rivals by giving them key positions and responsibilities. this is just what gandhi wish to try with his great rival. he wanted nothing less than the opposite of the prime minister of united india to be offered. but gandhi his closest colleagues opposed the idea has amounted back that was given the task of ending british rule in india and was committed to the solution. the proposal was never to know. at least one leading juneau scholar, stanley wolford thinks that he would've accepted the offer if it had been made. who can know for sure? gandhi did not india send deny pakista