Partition Of India And Pakistan

Partition, a Major Divisor Fact in History
How did Partition affect India and Pakistan?

SECTION A. Plan
The British had an important colony in the region of India, it had been a British colony for 350 years. In 1947 India gained its independence, but this important fact didn’t come alone; misunderstandings and crashes between the two cultures in the territory were the main reason of the nextfighting. A massacre that left wounds that haven’t being healed yet.
The topic is interesting because has been transcendental to the history of these two countries, and the way they got to what they wanted which was their independence and after that they decided to separate because of different religious beliefs and ideals.
Many primary sources are going to be used along the work such speechesby important Muslim and Hindu’s leaders; and secondary sources like texts specialized in the topic.

SECTION B. Summary of Evidence
"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."
The partition of India happened in 1947 and formed the states of the Dominion ofPakistan and the Union of India. India was separated on the day of its independence from the British, due to tensions between the Hindus and the Muslims living in the country.

Partition of India. 1947.
The map shows the transition of territories from before and after the independence. The first shows India under the British rule, while the second shows how the region was divided breaking of EastPakistan (now Bangladesh) from West Pakistan (Pakistan today).
The British colony in India offered it many benefits by building huge roads, allowing the growth of trade, and uniting many regions. The British also modernized India by creating telegraphs, telephones, bridges, canals and improving public health, schools and colleges, and ending local warfare. At the same time there were plenty ofthings that weren’t good for the country, such as the British power over politics and economy which caused problems and set restrictions to Indian owned industries. Many villagers lost self-sufficiency due to the British enforcing cash crops. Most British carried racist attitudes towards the Indians in the country, and adopted policies which didn’t abide by many religious practices in India.Traditional Indian life was threatened due to British superiority.
In consequence the Indian population, both Hindi and Muslims, started the formation of organizations in pro of independence, like the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, which at the same time defined a fine line between the two major religions and their views; with this the idea of two separated states after gainingindependence from British began.
The first to propose separate states was the writer and philosopher Allama Iqbal in 1930, he addressed the fellow speech to Muslims in the conversation he had in the Muslim League:
“The Hindus and the Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs and literature… To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minorityand the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state.”
The Hindus were also pushing for partition. In 1937, Veer Savarkar said in his Presidential Address to the Hindu Mahasabha: “India cannot be assumed today to be Unitarian and homogenous nation, but on the contrary there are two nations in themain- the Hindus and the Muslims.”
By the late 1930s, Muslims began to exit from congress and formed separate groups that were pushing the formation of a new state: Pakistan. At this time, Britain did not directly rule India, but just oversaw the whole country. In 1943, The Muslim League proposed a quick plan to divide and gain independence, also known as “Divide and Quit”. Gandhi participated...