Partition1947 CE – 1947 CESouth Asia

Partition of India

The division of British India into India and Pakistan (West Pakistan and East Bengal) along broadly religious lines, causing one of history's largest mass migrations (10-20 million displaced) and an estimated 1-2 million deaths in communal violence.

Key Figures

Lord Mountbatten Muhammad Ali Jinnah Jawaharlal Nehru Mahatma Gandhi Cyril Radcliffe

Preceding Causes

The Muslim League's demand for a separate Muslim-majority state (the Pakistan Resolution of 1940), Congress-League political deadlock exacerbated by the failure of the Cabinet Mission Plan, communal violence (especially Direct Action Day 1946), and Mountbatten's decision to advance the independence date to August 1947.

War1939 CE

World War II

The deadliest conflict in human history, killing an estimated 70–85 million people. The war included the Holocaust — the genocide of 6 million Jews and millions of others — and ended in the Pacific theater with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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