Bill
The people who died in India and Pakistan were victims of the British policy of partition, seen in operation also in Ireland, which encouraged murderous expressions of religious hostility. That does not, of course, absolve the immediate perpetrators; any more than Greek aggression against Turkey absolved the Turks who burned the ethnic Greek city of Smyrna and expelled its residents.
I note that Gandhi was a Hindu, so I wondered why you were so hostile, but now I see: Gandhi proposed a policy of peace between different religious communities. You are disparaging this because you want hate and war to be directed against Muslims, who are currently the favourite scapegoat of the extreme right (whose ideology always requires a scapegoat) just as Jews were in the early and mid 20th century.
Also, please stop the nonsense about compassion and sympathy and big hugs, your current motif. You're working it to death, as with other of your ideas. Again, you risk ridicule.