POST COLD WAR WORLD
RISE OF CHINA
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India emphasized a secular government while the government in Pakistan emphasized religion.
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India was plunged into a civil war while Pakistan maintained a peaceful transference to independence.
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India allied itself with the United States while Pakistan became a part of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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India was soon partitioned into two countries while Pakistan was able to maintain unity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Years of nonviolent resistance to British rule, led by Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU, eventually resulted in Indian independence in 1947. Large-scale communal violence took place before and after the subcontinent partition into two separate states-India and Pakistan.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Dominion of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Pakistan-which at the time comprised two regions lying on either side of India-is now the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The partition was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947.
Detailed explanation-3: -Crudely, this was a division based upon religious affiliation, with the creation of a Muslim majority in West and East Pakistan and a Hindu majority in India.
Detailed explanation-4: -The birth of India and Pakistan as independent states in 1947 was a key moment in the history of Britain’s Empire and its army. But the process of partition was attended by mass migration and ethnic violence that has left a bitter legacy to this day.