Question

Describe the event that preceded and lead to the partition of India what were the effect of partition of India and Pakistan

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Explanation:

70 years ago, South Asia erupted. The sporadic violence that constituted the culmination of a largely non-violent independence movement was unpredicted and massive. In a matter of weeks, 12 million people crossed newly-formed international borders, over a million lost their lives, thousands of children went missing, thousands of women were raped, conversions were rampant, dacoity and vigilantism were commonplace and the homeland of Gandhi and Buddha devolved into a state of anarchy. When the dust settled after Partition, a million corpses lay rotting under the unforgiving sun, the most powerful empire in world history began its rapid descent and two countries were born, bursting from a cradle of voluminous blood. The Second World War destroyed the British economy. Colonial arrogance was swept away from Westminster when Labour won the 1945 election, and it was replaced by a realistic weariness. The new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, was highly in favour of Britain leaving India’s fate to Indians, realising rightly that Britain simply could not afford its empire any longer. Despite Churchill’s ceaseless fanfaronade, the sun was finally setting on the British Empire. India during the Second World War India in 1940s was in a slow but sure descent into disorder. The Great Depression had wrecked the world economy and caused massive unemployment in Britain and across her colonies. With the onset of the War, India was again forced to fight for a colon