Was it common?

Was it a common practice of having love or arranged marriage between Hindu and Muslim people before partition? Or was it very rare before 1947?

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Hmmm don't know .....

Mujeh bhi jaana hai ki was it common or rare. I think it would have depended on couples and families and understanding ki agar if two couples belonging to other communities and their families agree for marriage and they don't have problem.. then definitely they would let them married

The two communities lived in harmony and were civil, however rarely did they ever dine in each others houses or mix religion with relations. The Partition brought in love torn apart by fate and the recounted love stories have also been lost in the lack of evidence available on which version is the truth.

riots were common in pre-partition punjab. in fact, the violence was spiraled after a sikh/hindu man was killed in rawalpindi by a member of muslim league. i think that happened sometime in june 1947. jinnah's lust for separate nation was so powerful that he along with other prominent league politicians were responsible for "direct action day". it was considered a black day for hindu and few survivors still believe it to be the worst possible. forget about marriage, dining at each other's place was formidable. the most you can expect is harmony and peaceful co-existence. nor arranged marriage neither love marriage was possible among people of different faith unless some divine miracle happen. you can read a bit about pre-partition lahore online. most of the properties belonged to hindu/sikhs(close to 80% of trade and business) while muslims formed the bulk of administration. due to their majority in lahore administration and overall district, non-muslims were in constant state of fear and eventually run for their life when partition became inevitable. those who were not city-dwellers or too optimistic about alleged brotherhood, had to face the burnt of communal riots. entire villages were ramshackled and properties were forcefully taken over. a journalist who had witness both nazi concentration camp and partition, compared partitioned panjab as buchenwald which was literally a slaughterhouse.

Sharing Meals in Bengal was not an uncommon event though many shares stories of not mixing together in school, not sharing the same bench or even if invited separate sitting arrangement. For marriage, I know of two incidents of famous families where a Hindu girl married a muslim man