Independent Pakistan inherited India's longest and strategically most problematic borders.The conflict has wasted thousands of lives and millions of dollars, but is closer to a solution now than at any time since independence.
The partition of India (1947) Image by themightyquill/CC Licensed “A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” Separately from India's partition, Burma (now Myanmar) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) gained independence in 1948; Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan in 1971.Medical advances under the Company and British Raj, such as smallpox vaccinations, improved sanitation, and quarantine procedures, led to a steep rise in population. In reality, the riots were evidence as much of a simple lack of military and political control as they were of social discord.Further evidence of the collapse of government authority was to be seen in the Princely State of Hyderabad, where a major uprising occurred in the Telengana region, and with the Tebhaga ('two-thirds') agitation among share-cropping cultivators in north Bengal. He was a "confident amateur," in the words of Indian historian Joya Chatterji, chosen because Radcliffe was supposedly a nonpartisan and thus apolitical actor.On both sides, people scrambled to get onto the "right" side of the border or were driven from their homes by their erstwhile neighbors. By the 1920s, a heightened sense of religious ethnicity became apparent. (h) The native rulers would have the choice to accede to any state according to their own choice.The system of Shuddic which was adopted by the Arya Sainaj created doubt in the minds of the Muslims.
Worse still, most people did not have access to the printed document, and they simply did not know their immediate future. With the country descending further into chaos, Mountbatten reluctantly agreed to the formation of two separate states.Jinnah had proposed a single commission made up of three impartial persons; but Nehru suggested two commissions, one for Bengal and one for Punjab. The Partition of India was the process of dividing the subcontinent along sectarian lines, which took place in 1947 as India gained its independence from the British Raj.The northern, predominantly Muslim sections of India became the nation of Pakistan, while the southern and majority Hindu section became the Republic of India. Riots broke out at such times as during Holi festival, when sacred cows were slaughtered, or when Hindu religious music was played in front of mosques at prayer time.There was an error. In essence, the award created two states in which the ratio of the minority population was almost identical.On Jan. 30, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a young Hindu radical for his support of a multi-religious state.