HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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India had adopted a policy of nonalignment.
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Religious differences had led to conflicts between Hindus and Muslims.
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Most of India’s valuable resources were located in the south.
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British India’s Muslim minority controlled most of India’s banking industry.
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the end of World War II, the British decided to partition the Indian subcontinent into the nations of India and Pakistan. What was a primary reason for this division? India had adopted a policy of nonalignment. Religious differences had led to conflicts between Hindus and Muslims.
Detailed explanation-2: -The partition caused large-scale loss of life and an unprecedented migration between the two dominions. Among refugees that survived, it solidified the belief that safety lay among co-religionists. In the instance of Pakistan, it made palpable a hitherto only-imagined refuge for the Muslims of British India.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the 1947 partition there was religious violence between Muslim-Hindu, Muslim-Sikhs and Muslim-Jains on a gigantic scale. Hundreds of religious riots have been recorded since then, in every decade of independent India.
Detailed explanation-4: -The dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir was sparked by a fateful decision in 1947, and has resulted in decades of violence, including two wars. Since 1947, India and Pakistan have been locked in conflict over Kashmir, a majority-Muslim region in the northernmost part of India.
Detailed explanation-5: -Jinnah returned from London with the determination of demanding separate state for Muslims, revived the Muslim League in 1934. 2.By 1940 he was demanding a separate state for the Muslims. The Muslim league considered the congress as a Hindu organisation. More items