Senseless Partition of India and Pakistan

Not only the land, offices, furniture, but also the library books had to be divided between 2 nations during partition in 1947. The division was so calculative and senseless that most of the tables sent across the countries did not accompany the chairs and some volumes of the books were not sent (making it an incomplete set) because they had to maintain the 4:1 ratio during division.

Encyclopedia Britannica was divided into alternate volumes going to each country. Dictionaries were ripped apart with the part having A-K entries going to one countries and the rest to another. If there was only 1 copy of the book, it was supposed to go to the country which had the most interest in it. Even instruments of Police band were not spared with flutes going to Pakistan, Drums to India and so on. Wine cellars were retained in India since Pakistan was against alcohol but India had to compensate in cash for the alcohol to Pak. 

Apart from this calculative and senseless division, there were extremists demanding for the impossible i.e Some extremists from Pakistan wanted the Taj Mahal to be "disassembled" and sent over to Pak because it was built by Mughals and Indians wanted the course of the river Indus to be changed and redirected to India since the Vedas were written on banks of that river. 

The whole process of asset division during partition was a big headache.