this is a tough one because South Asia’s history is mixed with tons of propaganda. in fact, it’s a coming-of-age type thing here when one has read enough history to understand the real version. basically there are hundreds of incidents that took place in gaining independence from the british (early 1900s), to the partition (1947), and the separate histories of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (post 1947) which are even more messy due to events like the Cold War and atomic race. This means there are three versions of history: colonial british, Indian and Pakistani. there are resources by leftists and communists but i haven’t seen anything in English or new because leftists were heavily persecuted in the 80s and have basically not produced literature since.
i’ll try to find if there’s something short and accurate enough, but if not you can use the wiki article on the partition to get an idea of the timeline.
the only connection i made up till now was that before covid i used to get a cold or flu like once a year and it was always a very similar pattern where you would be back up in a couple days. post covid tho it just feels like i’m sick all the time, i think i’ve been out with a cold/flu like 4 times this year already and there’s a quarter left.
but for the past couple years my ADHD has also been incredibly difficult. it hasn’t been this bad my whole life and i assumed that it was just because of circumstances. but it would be useful to see if this is a common experience post covid