HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -In August 1947 British India was partitioned, ending three hundred years of colonial rule with the creation two independent nations: India and Pakistan (comprising West and East Pakistan, present-day Bangladesh).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Subcontinent was called British India, and it was Britain’s protectorate being ruled by the British East India Company. It was under the British crown’s rule. The Subcontinent that is presently located in South Asia includes India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 1947 Partition of the Indian subcontinent into the independent nations of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan was accompanied by one of the largest mass migrations in human history and violence on a scale that had seldom been seen before.

Detailed explanation-4: -No longer able to afford to administer the country, it wanted to leave as quickly as possible. The last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, set the date as 15 August 1947. The population was about 25% Muslim, with the rest mostly Hindu but also Sikh, Buddhist and other religions.