ABSTRACT
Imperialism has established its status quo of a proxy power of the world, in general, and in Asia, specifically, with the imposition and perpetuation of the view of territory in disputes ranging from the Palestinian issue, to the Iraq-Iran war and in the case of the specific focus of this chapter, the Partition of India. The territorial boundary as a legal entity that defines the states sovereignty as well as national and cultural identity came into existence only after the French Revolution and the establishment of the modern nation state. Gandhi sought, through his demand of autonomy for North West Frontier Province (NWFP) at the Round Table Conference, to question the very notion that separate territory defines national, cultural or religious identity. Gandhi had a sense of the enormous significance of the issues confronting India's freedom struggle and the problem of Partition portending the impossibility of there being a common destiny between Hindus and Muslims.
