Partition of India Mapped

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The Partition of India was the division of British India into two sovereign dominion nations, India and Pakistan.

Nowadays, the Dominion of India is the Republic of India. The Dominion of Pakistan is today the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The partition involved two provinces, Bengal and Punjab, based on district-wide non-Muslim or Muslim majorities.

Predominant religions of the British Indian Empire (1909)

There were many ideas of dividing British India into parts.

The map below shows speculates on India’s possible division from the Daily Herald newspaper (4th June 1947).

How India may be split up (1947)

The partition was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and ended in India’s Crown rule. The two self-governing nations of India and Pakistan legally came into being at midnight on 15 August 1947.

In June 1947, the nationalist leaders admitted to a partition of the nation along religious the Radcliffe Line. The predominantly Hindu and Sikh territories were attributed to the new India and primarily Muslim areas to the new country of Pakistan.

Partition of India in 1947

The partition replaced about 20 million people along religious lines, producing devastating refugee crises in recently formed countries. There was large-scale brutality, with estimates of the loss of life accompanying the partition disputed reaches approximately 2 million. The destructive character of the division produced an atmosphere of hatred and suspicion among India and Pakistan that influences their relationship nowadays.

The term partition of India usually doesn’t include the separations of Burma and the withdrawal of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971.