Of course not. However, I will say that from what I saw of the Rosa Parks episode (and I only checked it out because of the bad things I read about it on here) it was a cartoonish and shallow re-telling of events, with a healthy does of moral outrage that people from the past didn't have the same socio-political mores as we do today. Well, d'oh!

The racists in the program were far too stereotyped, with "reasons" for their hated. The truth is that racism back then in places like Montgomery, Alabama was entirely institutional. Most people weren't racist for any particular reason...they were just racist. For example, I know for a fact that the bus driver in the Rosa Parks case was entirely unrepentant in later years. As far as he was concerned, he wasn't doing anything differently with Parks from what he'd done countless times before. Ultimately, I think the episode reduced an important historical event to a two-dimensional cartoon.

But that was nothing compared to the episode about Indian/Pakistan partition, which was pure historical revisionism. It suggested or implied that the partitioning of the Indian continent into India and Pakistan was the fault of the dastardly, wicked British. That's completely untrue: the British were totally opposed to dividing the country up in that way. It was the Indian Muslims -- principally their leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who became the first governor of Pakistan -- that pushed for it. He was adamant that Muslims in the Indian subcontinent should get their own state. In the elections immediately after the end of WW2, the Muslim League won the majority of Muslim seats, giving them the political clout to push for Jinnah's dream.

When negotiations for the ending of the British Raj and Indian independence began, the Indian Congress and the Muslim League couldn't agree on a power-sharing deal for the country...mostly due to Jinnah's hardline beliefs and unwillingness to compromise. Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and the English Viceroy of India, Lord Louis Mountbatten, were all utterly opposed to the breaking up of the country. But although they tried their hardest to avoid it, they reluctantly came to realise that Jinnah and the Muslim League were immovable on the matter. So, reluctantly, partitioning was the only option.

However, the British knew that partitioning would cause a huge humanitarian crisis and unnecessary bloodshed...and that's exactly what happened. They resisted and fought passionately against partition, but Jinnah was adamant about the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan.

In particular, I always felt sorry for Mountbatten; he was quite a moderate among the British and certainly a humanitarian. It was his job to oversee the handing back of the subcontinent and, as it turned out, the dividing up of the country into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. It's a shame because he was utterly opposed to partition and ultimately the whole process bore his name, as The Mountbatten Plan. He always felt ashamed of that, apparently, and as I say, it was never something he wanted

That episode of Doctor Who which used partitioning as a back drop willfully distorted the facts in order to criticise the ruling British of the times. Instead, should've been criticising Jinnah and the Muslim League...but that wouldn't have suited the anti-British agenda they wanted to push in the program, would it?

There's plenty of legitimate criticisms to level at the British Empire in India, without rewriting history to insinuate that partition was the British's idea. That kind of wilful revisionism is offensive in the extreme.