"We all know the distortions of recent history. People have miswritten about it ... That Muslims were responsible for creation of Pakistan. Some people cite the elections which took place in 1946," Ansari said at a function here.
"The important point is what was the franchise in the 1946 election. It was not universal, it was based on property, status etc. And some historian has pointed out that only eleven per cent of the population qualified to be voters," he added.
The Vice President said that a historian no less than Professor Ayesha Jalal had pointed out that in Punjab, which was the heart of the Pakistan movement, only a quarter of the eligible voters cast their votes.
"So that is evidence for who created what? So it was British who created it," Ansari said.
He was speaking at a function where three volumes of "Role of Muslims in the Indian Freedom Struggle (1857-1947)", with Professor Rafaqat Ali Khan as General Editor, were released.
Ansari also said that "History has been sometimes sidelined, sometimes distorted and sometimes perverted."
Speaking about the freedom struggle, he said that all people of the country had responded to foreign domination in a similar manner.
"We are talking about the people of India whether they were Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains or any other religion," he said. (MORE)
