USA HISTORY

POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959

RECONSTRUCTION OF JAPANS GOVERNMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
After India gained its independence from Great Britain in 1947, what two religious groups were in disagreement over land and existing borders
A
Muslims and Hindus
B
Muslims and Christians
C
Christians and Hindus
D
Hindus and Buddhist
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The predominantly Hindu and Sikh areas were assigned to the new India and predominantly Muslim areas to the new nation of Pakistan; the plan included a partition of the Muslim-majority provinces of Punjab and Bengal.

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: -Ziaur Rahman Azmi says that the reason behind Hindus’ negative perception of Islam is mostly the spread of Sufism in India, as he believes Sufism “distorts” the Islamic ideas of Risalat and Tawheed. He claims Sufism includes idolatry, pointing to Sufi mausoleums and the practices of Tawaf and Sijda that occur at them.

Detailed explanation-4: -The partition created the independent nations of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India, separating the provinces of Bengal and Punjab along religious lines, despite the fact that Muslims and Hindus lived in mixed communities throughout the area, Satia said.

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