How Partitioning India and Pakistan Mentally Destabilized The Whole Subcontinent

"How could they be in India a short while ago and now suddenly in Pakistan?"

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Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story Toba Tek Singh aptly captured the frenzied religious dilemma that engulfed the 1947 Partition of India.

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This madness even trickled into the mental asylums of the divided subcontinent.

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Dr. Robert Brocklesby Davis, a psychiatrist at Ranchi’s Psychiatric Nursing Hospital, diagnosed a Bengali Hindu man with hyper-religiosity in 1949.

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The patient had inappropriate dreams about Hindu deities and so, frightened, he converted his name, dress, and language to Islam.

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However, soon, he dreamt that he was assaulting Muslim Imams. Terrified, he changed his religion to Christianity, got dressed in a suit, and started speaking English.

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Yet, he soon dreamt that he had “impure thoughts” about the Virgin Mary and he broke down completely.

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