Question

What were the circumstances that lead to the partition of india in 1947.?explain ias note?

Answer 1

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten was made the viceroy of India in 1947. In June that year , he drew up the Mountbatten Plan . The plan announced that India would be free in August 1947 , but divided into two nations - India and Pakistan. The Mountbatten Plan was given legal effect by the India Independence Act in July 1947 . The two Independent dominions of India and Pakistan were created at midnight on 14-15 August 1947.

Answer 2

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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.