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The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan. [ 1][ 2] The Dominion of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of ...
Annexation of Hyderabad. / 17.000°N 78.833°E / 17.000; 78.833. The princely state of Hyderabad was annexed by India in September 1948 through a military operation code-named Operation Polo, which was dubbed a "police action". [ 9][ 10][ 11] At the time of partition of India in 1947, the princely states of India, who in principle had ...
Violence against Muslimsin independent India. An attack on a railway train carrying Muslim refugees during the Partition of India was carried out at Amritsar in Indian Punjab on 22 September 1947. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Three thousand Muslim refugees were killed [ 1][ 2] and a further one thousand wounded. [ 4] Only one hundred passengers remained ...
The partition of India was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947. It led to the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: India and Pakistan. [12] [13] The change of political borders notably included the division of two provinces of British India, [a] Bengal and Punjab. [14]
The history of modern India has many incidents of communal violence. During the 1947 partition there was religious violence between Muslim-Hindu, Muslim-Sikhs and Muslim-Jains on a gigantic scale. [105] Hundreds of religious riots have been recorded since then, in every decade of independent India.
t. e. Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using violence to intimidate non-muslims and their leadership for a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, it was a day of nationwide communal riots. [ 5]
The Partition of India came in 1947 with the sudden grant of independence. [1] It was the intention of those who wished for a Muslim state to have a clean partition between independent and equal "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" once independence came. [2] Nearly one third of the Muslim population of India remained in the new India. [3] [4] [5]
In the years leading up to the partition of India, the pro-separatist All-India Muslim League violently drove out Hindus and Sikhs from the western Punjab. [62] Many millions of Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu refugees trekked across the newly drawn borders. In Punjab, where the new border lines divided the Sikh regions in half, massive bloodshed ...