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The Partition of India proposed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah was based on

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The Partition of India was based on a religious division between the predominantly Hindu most of the land, and the more Muslim north. The Muslims felt that they were discriminated in the Hindu-majority country and they felt they could thrive best in an independent, Muslim-majority country. 
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