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The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The Dominion of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Pa...
British India is shown in two shades of pink; Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Princely states are shown in yellow. The British Raj (/ rɑːdʒ / RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') [10] was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, [11] lasting from 1858 to 1947. [12]
- Myth 1: The Main Aim Was to Resolve Religious Differences
- Myth 2: Partition Violence Was Spontaneous
- Myth 3: Partition Was The Outcome of Long-Term Planning
- Myth 4: All of India Was Under British Rule
- Myth 5: Partition Had Purely Regional Repercussions
Popular accounts of partition reproduce the British colonial state’s simplistic view of south Asian society just in terms of religious categories – with Hindu and Muslim identities as the biggest groups. Over the decades scholarship has shown that religious difference doesn’t explain partition. Simplistic religious categories in most analyses of pa...
British officials and nationalist leaders saw the violence of this period as the response of an irrational, religious society to complex political negotiations. But there is substantial evidence to show that the violence of partition was not spontaneous. The violence of 1947 was deeply shaped by earlier colonial policies emphasising separate religi...
Calls for the creation of separate states, which came to the fore in 1947, had mixed and uneven support, including within the Muslim political leadership. But these ideasdid not set out how, or when, such states would be created or where their borders would be drawn. Up until late 1946 the British government was very reluctant to support division o...
One-third of India was never under formal British rule but comprised more than 550 princely states. The British government had different constitutional and diplomatic arrangements with these states, all of which required legal negotiation when the British ceded power. Kashmir was one of these princely states. The maharaja, Sir Hari Singh, signed an...
Estimates of people who migrated across the borders created in 1947 range between 10 million and 17.5 million. Many people from areas directly affected by partition violence, and the insecurities that followed from it, have also migrated beyond south Asia to other parts of the world. Communities from Punjab, Sindh, Kashmir, and Sylhet form sizeable...
The partition of British India occurred in August 1947 when the British government withdrew from India after almost two hundred years of British rule. People in British India had called for...
Aug 9, 2022 · INFOGRAPHIC. 75 years after Partition: These maps show how the British split India. The hastily drawn border, known as the Radcliffe Line, attempted to carve out two nations along religious...
Sep 3, 2024 · The raj succeeded management of the subcontinent by the British East India Company, after general distrust and dissatisfaction with company leadership resulted in a widespread mutiny of sepoy troops in 1857, causing the British to reconsider the structure of governance in India.
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Mar 3, 2011 · In 1858, British Crown rule was established in India, ending a century of control by the East India Company. The life and death struggle that preceded this formalisation of British control...
