{UAH} How Britain’s Role in the Partition of India Inflamed Local Issues

PARTITION OF INDIA- SHOULD SUCH GERRYMANDERING BASED ON RELIGION EVER BE ATTEMPTED AGAIN? CAN MUSLIMS LIVE PEACEFULLY WITH OTHER RELIGIONS?

Consider the following:

The partition of India in 1947 saw the creation of two independent dominions, India and Pakistan based on religion..The Dominion of India became the Republic of India in 1950, and in 1957 the Dominion of Pakistan became the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. In 1971, the People's Republic of Bangladesh came into being after the Bangladesh Liberation War.

The partition involved the division of three provinces, Assam, Bengal and Punjab, based on district-wide Hindu or Muslim majorities. It also involved the division of the British Indian Army, the Royal Indian Navy, the Indian Civil Service, the railways, and the central treasury, between the two new dominions. The two self-governing countries of Pakistan and India legally came into existence at midnight on 14–15 August 1947

.It is estimated that around 1–2 million people died during the partition of British India. The most violent clauses were centred around Punjab where the Muslim population of East Punjab was forcibly expelled and the Hindu/Sikh population in West Punjab was similarly expelled..

Sir Francis Mudie, the governor of West Punjab, estimated that 5,00,000 Muslims died trying to enter his province, while the British high commissioner in Karachi put the full total at 8,00,000. Thousands of Hindus also died trying to enter East Punjab.

UNHCR estimated that around 14 million people were displaced during the partition. The 1951 Census of Pakistan identified the number of displaced persons in Pakistan at 7,226,600, presumably all Muslims who had entered Pakistan from India. Similarly, the 1951 Census of India enumerated 7,295,870 displaced persons, apparently all Hindus and Sikhs who had moved to India from Pakistan. The two numbers add up to 14.5 million.

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Could Britain have done more to quell the violence that followed the partition of India in 1947? Anita Rani reflects on Britain's role in one of the 20th century's forgotten tragedies.

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How Britain's Role in the Partition of India Inflamed Local Issues

This article is an edited transcript of Anita Rani – Indian Partition and Anita Rani shares her family's Partition history on Dan Snow's History ...

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