The document summarizes the partition of British India in 1947 into two independent states - India and Pakistan. As independence neared, tensions rose between Hindus and Muslims, with Muslims wanting their own state. The British partition created a Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan and West and East Bengal, though millions died in violence during the mass migration between the two new states along religious lines.

3. AS INDEPENDENCE NEARED,
TENSIONS BETWEEN INDIA’S
TWO LARGEST RELIGIOUS
GROUPS BEGAN TO HEAT UP
AND INDIA’S MUSLIM
MINORITIES WANTED A
STATE OF THEIR OWN

6. The end of the British Empire in India
in August 1947 resulted in the creation
of two separate states of India and
Pakistan.
The division was based on religious
lines, a Muslim majority in Pakistan
and a Hindu majority in India.
Pakistan itself was split into two parts
in the east (East Bengal, which became
Bangladesh in 1971) and in the west
(Western Punjab)

7. » The British promised to leave India by July
1948, but the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten
moved this forward to August 1947.

8. » Sir Cyril Radcliffe headed the boundary commission
which draw up the border between India and
Pakistan

9. » Due to this Hindu-Muslim split, a
Great Migration occurred where
Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in
India left their homes in an attempt
to go where they felt accepted.
» Unfortunately, this led to
horrendous violence that killed
millions of people.