The fact that his family had fled India upon Partition gave him an additional chip on his shoulder: it was widely said that he saw relations with India as a series of opportunities to wreak vengeance for what his family had suffered in the refugee upheavals of 1947.
El hecho de que su familia hubiera tenido que huir de India tras la Partición contribuía a sostener esta imagen: se decía mucho que veía las relaciones con la India como una serie de oportunidades para buscar venganza por lo que había sufrido su familia en los levantamientos de refugiados de 1947.