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Partition of India
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The division of British India into the independent states of India and Pakistan, enacted by the Indian Independence Act and taking effect on 14 and 15 August 1947. Driven by the Muslim League's demand under Mohammed Ali Jinnah for a separate Muslim majority state, the partition drew new borders, the Radcliffe Line, that split the provinces of Punjab and Bengal and triggered one of the largest and most violent mass migrations in history, displacing an estimated fifteen million people and killing hundreds of thousands to over a million in the communal violence that followed.
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LocationBritish India, divided along the Radcliffe Line into the new dominions of India and Pakistan, the latter including the noncontiguous East Pakistan that later became Bangladesh. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names India directly: "The division of British India into the independent states of India and Pakistan, enacted by the Indian Independence Act and taking effect on 14 and 15 August 1947."
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The Muslim League's demand for a separate state, made within the wider independence movement, shaped the terms on which Britain granted independence in 1947.
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