The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan.

22 июн. 2015 г. · Ever since 1947, India and Pakistan have nourished a deep-rooted mutual antipathy. They have fought two inconclusive wars over the disputed ...

Muslims travelled to Pakistan; Sikhs and Hindus to India. Up to a million of these refugees were killed in a series of horrific massacres in the border regions.

28 окт. 2024 г. · Partition of India, division of British India into the independent countries of India and Pakistan according to the Indian Independence Act

As the provinces of the Punjab and Bengal were effectively split in half approximately seven million Hindus and Sikhs and seven million Muslims found themselves ...

During October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, many Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab.

Crudely, this was a division based upon religious affiliation, with the creation of a Muslim majority in West and East Pakistan and a Hindu majority in India.

Between February and April 1950, riots led to a million and a half people migrating; 850,000 Muslims moved eastwards, and 650,000 Hindus moved westwards. Nehru ...

15 авг. 2023 г. · In 1947, India became independent from Britain and split into two countries - India and Pakistan. East Pakistan has since become Bangladesh.

16 авг. 2022 г. · Britain's haphazard plan to leave the subcontinent in 1947 after nearly three centuries and split it into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.