Question

What was the reason for partition of india.

Answer 1

The Partition of India was the division of British
India [a] in 1947 which accompanied the
creation of two independent dominions , India
and Pakistan. [1] The Dominion of India is
today the Republic of India , and the Dominion
of Pakistan is today the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan and the People's Republic of
Bangladesh . The partition involved the division
of three provinces, Assam, Bengal and the
Punjab, based on district-wide Hindu or
Muslim majorities. The boundary demarcating
India and Pakistan became known as the
Radcliffe Line. It also involved the division of
the British Indian Army , the Royal Indian Navy ,
the Indian Civil Service , the railways , and the
central treasury, between the two new
dominions. The partition was set forth in the
Indian Independence Act 1947 and resulted in
the dissolution of the British Raj , as the British
government there was called. The two self-
governing countries of Pakistan and India
legally came into existence at midnight on 14–
15 August 1947. [2]
The partition displaced over 14 million people
along religious lines, creating overwhelming
refugee crises in the newly constituted
dominions; there was large-scale violence,
with estimates of loss of life accompanying or
preceding the partition disputed and varying
between several hundred thousand and two
million. [3][b] The violent nature of the partition
created an atmosphere of hostility and
suspicion between India and Pakistan that
plagues their relationship to the present.
The term partition of India does not cover the
secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan in
1971, nor the earlier separations of Burma
(now Myanmar ) and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
from the administration of British India. [c] The
term also does not cover the political
integration of princely states into the two new
dominions, nor the disputes of annexation or
division arising in the princely states of
Hyderabad, Junagadh , and Jammu and
Kashmir, though violence along religious lines
did break out in some princely states at the
time of the partition. It does not cover the
incorporation of the enclaves of French India
into India during the period 1947–1954, nor
the annexation of Goa and other districts of
Portuguese India by India in 1961. Other
contemporaneous political entities in the region
in 1947, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal , and the
Maldives were unaffected by the partition. [d]