It seems as if India was broken when the British came and broken when the British left. Even the British, themselves, stated that “to unite India against Muslim wishes would necessarily involve force. To divide India against Hindu wishes would not necessarily involve force; and at worst required the force required is likely to be less.” But even still, Hindus (especially in the memory of Gandhi) wanted to see Muslims united to the rest of India. When starting the voting process, India first let the educated and property owners (only about 28% of the population) vote in the elections. However, this still amounted to 41 million people. The Muslims felt very underrepresented and had only one purpose: to win Pakistan from the Hindu people. In the end of these talks, on July 29th, 1946, Jinnah said that “the time has now come for the Muslim nation to resort to direct action in order to achieve Pakistan and assert their just rights and to vindicate their honour and to get rid of the present slavery under the British and contemplated future of Caste Hindu domination.” Obviously, the Muslims were not keen on having their own independent freedom. If they were not to be given voting rights, equal at least, to the Hindus, then they would want their own state. The British, under order from Lord Mountbatten, shortened the time of their withdrawl due to the growing tensions with Pakistan. They were even fearing for the lives of the British subjects in India. The partition plans that were being proposed made each respective Indian group fearful that they would lose a city precious to them. The Muslims wanted all of Punjab, the Sikhs and Hindus wanted Lahore. The debates raged on and would impact the division of india in demography, economics, culture, religion, law, international relations, and party politics.