Historically speaking Hindus are one of the most persecuted communities in the world who had to face incessant invasions, persecution, oppression and suppression of various kinds and extremely exploitative form of colonization. Yet, there is little talk about preserving the memories for those who perished in defence of Hindu culture and civilization. Lack of historical memory has also resulted in projecting Hindus as a divided house, unconnected, scattered and splintered in numerous ways. The world is said to be globalizing, but Hindus as a community make little effort to celebrate its global presence. There must be something that binds the Hindus globally, there must be something that reconnects the scattered parts into a global whole. The common history of Hindu community seems to be one of the answers. From the sea of the past Hindus can well discover the pearl for future.

In the recent historical memory, 14 August is a day which Hindus should remember and pass down its memories to the generations to come. It was the day in 1947 when India was partitioned and Pakistan was born. The event was the culmination of a bloody trail of genocide, riot, loot, arson and rape. The demand of Pakistan accompanied by demand of partitioning India was raised aggressively threatening use of force against the Hindus by Muslim League leaders. The meek response of the national leadership to the threats of Muslim League resulted in one of the massive displacement of population known to the human history with more than 12.5 million people forced to leave their homeland seeking refuge on the other sides of the border. The loss of life has been roughly estimated to be around 5,00,000 with some estimates even claiming around 10, 00,000 killings in the resultant riots and genocides. The human tragedy so far remains untold and un- accounted for with little efforts to revisit the ravaging impact of the partition.

Of late, there has been a conscious attempt to undermine the impact of partition and the untold miseries that were inflicted on Hindus on both sides of the current border. It has become a taboo to discuss in public the events leading to partition and the manner in which anti-Hindu riots were whipped up in connivance of the ruling dispensation in erstwhile united Bengal and Punjab resulting in unprovoked killings of Hindus. The call for "Direct Action" by Muslim League was responded with silence and surrender by the colonial rulers with no protests from the national leaders of the time. Hindus became victim of the silence and surrender to the Muslim League aggression which was pre-mediated and well planned. The same attitude is being displayed even today by the Hindu leaders who choose to mislead the entire Hindu community into a false sense of security.

The events related to partition are made to fade out of the public memory. As partition and the price of partition extracted from the Hindus fades out of the collective memory, Hindus become more and more vulnerable to repetition of such attacks which is political, social and economic in nature. A community is deprived of its history to rob it from its collective identity and any sense of unity. Such a process is aimed at ideologically disarming the community in face of mounting challenges and attacks. Hindus are passing through the same process. The history is distorted and misrepresented to make Hindus feel themselves to be a collection of disparate pieces waiting to be shattered at any single stroke. Hindus are presented as caste ridden community disunited and disoriented by diverse forces at work. Hindu resistance to Islam and Christianity is rarely discussed. The heroic struggle by the Hindu rulers and leaders alike in the face of Islamic onslaught and colonial rule are relegated to background lest Hindus discover their sense of pride and self-esteem.