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Why was the colony of India divided into India and Pakistan in 1947?​

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The agreement to divide colonial India into two separate states - one with a Muslim majority (Pakistan) and the other with a Hindu majority (India) is commonly seen as the outcome of conflict between the nations' elites.

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