The responsible for this phrase is Jawaharlal Nehru. He was born in 1889.
He was an important freedom supporter in India and the First Prime Minister of the country in 1947 after the establishment of India as an Independent Nation.
The partition in this nation was declared in 1947 in the Act of Independence. It involves the separation of three provinces which also resulted in the creation of two independent regions, India and Pakistan.
This phrase was uttered on the basis that this partition created major conflict between India and Pakistan which continue up to the present.
