India’s Independence and Partition

Topic: India’s Independence and Partition.

The Partition of India of 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. But the process of partition was attended by mass migration and ethnic violence that has left a bitter legacy to this day.

Learning Objectives: To understand the perspective of the Partition which was a highly controversial arrangement and remains a cause of much tension on the Indian subcontinent today. To understand the present-day bilateral relation between these two countries.

Scope: Background, Self-government, Geographic partition, 1947, Law and order, Princely states, – Independence, population transfer, and violence -, Post-Partition migration

Learning outcomes: To understand the present issues and its root causes in the subcontinent. It would also help to enrich information about the formation of our country.

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The Indian Independence Act of 1947

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