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It's interesting to speculate what the relationship between Muslims and Hindus would have been if partition never occurred, but given that Hindus have been terrorising other Hindus along ethnic and state lines, as well as other religious minorities altogether, I don't think it would have been too different.
Hindu nationalism developed as a response to British Colonialism, and, Hindutva was first elaborated in 1923, as tensions were rising within the colonial British Raj.
Let's list the effects of British Colonalism
For more read: -This -This -This
And yes. Religious and ethnic problems were already here but Brits exacerbated it.
For sure, but that's in addition to the intercaste, interfaith, and intrafaith conflicts that have existed occurred for thousands of years. British colonization was terrible ofc, but it definitely wasn't the lone or even major cause of the problems occurring today.