India achieved freedom from British colonial yolk on August 15, 1947 ... India and Pakistan. The partition was fueled by communal divisions that were sowed in the once-united Indian social ...
When British colonial rule of India ended in August 1947, the country ... Hindu and a new state – Pakistan – was created for Muslims. The division, known as partition, saw millions of Muslims ...
Yet in 1947, the same people insisted on a partition along communal lines ... simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and ...