IN Pakistan people avoid the word Partition. On August 14, they celebrate their 'deliverance' not so much from British rule as from Hindu domination. Nothing could be more futile now than an argument about who was responsible for the Partition. With the sequence of events stretching back for several decades, such an exercise can only be an academic distraction. But it is clear that the differences between Hindus and Muslims had become so acute by the early '40s that something like Partition had become inevitable.