responsible for the partition of India? The partition of India in August 1947 was a highly controversial event and has led to widespread speculation regarding its causes and consequences. Orthodox historians credit the creation of Pakistan to Muhammad Ali Jinnah‚ the leader of the All India Muslim League‚ and his determination to create a sovereign state for Indian Muslims. However‚ this view has been contested by a number of historians‚ who place responsibility for the partition on the political
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Britain’s holdings on the Indian subcontinent were granted independence in 1947 and 1948‚ becoming four new independent states: India‚ Burma (now Myanmar)‚ Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)‚ and Pakistan (including East Pakistan‚ modern-day Bangladesh). The Indian subcontinent was partitioned into Hindu-dominated but secular India‚ and the Muslim state of Pakistan after attaining independence from Great Britain in August 1947. Unfortunately‚ it was accompanied by the largest mass migration in human history
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THE PARTITION OF INDIA: DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES PRASHANT BHARADWAJ‚ ASIM KHWAJA & ATIF MIAN† A BSTRACT. Large scale migrations‚ especially involuntary ones‚ can have a sudden and substantial impact on the demographic landscape of both the sending and receiving communities. The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 resulted in one of the largest and most rapid population exchanges in human history. We compile comparable census data pre and postpartition from India and Pakistan to estimate
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Partition was it worth it? India‚ in many people’s opinion is a very beautiful‚ culturally rich‚ and traditionally country. It is a place with gorgeous grand architecture‚ fashionable attire‚ and wonderful people. India is a country in South Asia‚ with a population of roughly about 1‚210‚193‚422. This is the place where many religions were born‚ religions such as Hinduism‚ Jainism‚ Buddhism‚ Islam‚ and Sikhism. It is also a place with a very dark history‚ a tragic experience for hundreds
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Katrina Ann Abdul Hadi ID: 24681598 School of Arts and Social Sciences ATS1325 Contemporary Worlds 1 The partition of India in 1948 led to one of the largest mass migration movements in the world. The successful attainment of independence from colonial rule is also a narrative of religious nationalism‚ displacement and communal violence between the two nation states of India and Pakistan or more definitively the Muslims and Hindus. In Urvashi Butalia’s (2000‚ pp.264-300) “The Other Side of
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India gained its independence from Britain on the 15th of August‚ 1946 but then was previously faced with another issue. Partition. Muslims and Hindus wanted to be separated into their own countries‚ but what impacts would this have economically and socially? I will answer this question‚ analyzing both aspects‚ throughout this essay. This essay is based on books and articles I have read as well as interviews from my family members and detailed research through the internet. One source I mainly
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Anger and Violence in Partition Literature By : Madhu Sharma Partition of Indian subcontinent in 1947 was the biggest and most painful event in the whole human history. Millions of refugees came from Pakistan to India and vice-versa to seek a shelter of safety and security over their heads. The inarticulatable pain‚ trauma‚ angst and violence they went through is hard to believe and even imagine. They lost their hearth and houses‚ became alien in their own country and were treated inhumanly as
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Representation of Partition of India in Sunlight on a Broken Column‚ Ice-Candy Man‚ and 1947 Earth. Partition of India‚ which is almost overlooked in traditional historiography with India’s Independence and Birth of Pakistan‚ led to one of the largest and bloodiest migrations in the history of the world. Sunlight on a Broken Column‚ Ice-Candy Man and 1947 Earth are all set in the same time span and portray Partition in quite different ways. Different as in not only different from each other
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The Partition of Bengal (1905) Bengal was the largest of the provinces of India. At the end of the nineteenth century it included Western Bengal with a population 54 million (42 million Hindus and 12 million Muslims) and east Bengal and Assam with a population of 31 million (12 million Hindus and 18 million Muslims). This was a huge area to govern as one unit. There were ten times as many people in Bengal as there were in the whole of Britain at this time. The British maintain that Bengal was
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Kashmir conflicts is a major contention between India and Pakistan over control of the region of Kashmir which was located on the Northern border of India and the Northeast of Pakistan. Both Pakistan and India lays claim over Kashmir due to nationalism and the controversial politics of the region as well as other reasons including the religion issues‚ the water issues‚ border crossing issues and the strategic location of Kashmir which are vital to both India and Pakistan‚ which will be summarized in the
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