GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Regional population growth began to slow
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Both countries began to import huge quantities of raw cotton
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Large numbers of religious minorities were displaced
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English became the official language in both countries
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: India and Pakistan.
Detailed explanation-2: -In August, 1947, when, after three hundred years in India, the British finally left, the subcontinent was partitioned into two independent nation states: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Detailed explanation-3: -Context: It is estimated that two million Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs died in targeted murders and the tens of millions who were displaced in British India during the months before Independence. Background: There is no national memorial for the millions murdered, sexually violated, and displaced during Partition.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian Independence Act was passed in 1947. The act created two new independent dominions; India and Pakistan. Pakistan was split into Pakistan and East Pakistan which is now Bangladesh. The Bengal and Punjab provinces were partitioned between the two new countries.