Question

Analysis the implications of partition on India??

Answer 1

Partition” – the division of British India into the two separate states of India and Pakistan on August 14-15, 1947 – was the “last-minute” mechanism by which the British were able to secure agreement over how independence would take place. At the time, few people understood what Partition would entail or what its results would be, and the migration on the enormous scale that followed took the vast majority of contemporaries by surprise.

The main vehicle for nationalist activity was the Indian National Congress, whose best-known leaders included Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Even before the 1940s, it had long argued for a unitary state with a strong centre; even though Congress was ostensibly secular in its objectives, organisations representing minority interests increasingly viewed this idea with suspicion, believing that it would entrench the political dominance of Hindus, who made up about 80% of the population.

At around 25% of its population, Muslims were British India’s largest religious minority. Under imperial rule, they had grown accustomed to having their minority status protected by a system of reserved legislative seats and separate electorates. The British system of political control hinged on identifying interest groups willing to collaborate, a governing style often described as “divide and rule”.

Answer 2

The partition of India had a very bad impact, which we can even feel today. After our country got divided into India and Pakistan, it created a negative impact on the minds of the people of both the countries. There were many people who were non-Muslims who previously lived in Pakistan, due to the partition, they had to leave everything, and come in India empty handed.

It was a great time of sadness,every where there was poverty, and peoples life had got miserable those days, many families even got apart from each other, due to this partition.