The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors.
The year 1947 was a turning point in the history of South Asia. The independence of British India resulted in two sovereign states: India and Pakistan. This book analyses two important dimensions of the Partition-timing and causation. The essays by prominent scholars study the long- and short-...
In 1858 the British Raj known as the British Crown rule took control after the East India Company and would rule until India's Independence in 1947. Answer and Explanation: India was divided into two countries because a vast section of its Muslims wanted to have a country of their own. The...
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the largest land movement of people since the partition of india. it took less than a month for the number who had fled their homes to reach 10 million . their arrival in many of ukraine's neighbouring countries has put unprecedented strain on resources. in the uk, provisi...
The Partition of India in 1947 –corresponding to the dissolution of the Raj – led to the creation of Pakistan, which was set up to aggregate the majority Muslim regions from the colonial state. An independent India was set up to include the majority non-Muslim regions. Today, roughly 97%...
about a father’s efforts to style his daughter’s hair, which shot to the top ofThe New York Times’s list. Kokila’s books have won more than 95 awards, includingThe Night Diary, a historical novel about a girl’s experience of India’s partition, which received the prestigious Newbery...
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Religion. Why did Hindus and Muslims kill each other during India’s partition in 1947, and continue to do so today? Religion, of course. Now you can say that without religion people would find other reasons to kill each other and form tribes. That may be true, but religion is perhaps ...
Wilfred Cantwell Smith,Modern Islam in India: A Social Analysis, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore 1969 (reprint), p. 221. 40. Joya Chatterjee,Bengal divided: Hindu communalism and partition, 1932–1947, Cambridge University Press, 1994, passim; Author’s interview with Annada Shankar Ray (retired ...