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What is the Partition of India?

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Answer: When India separated and became modern day India and Pakistan.

Explanation: India was under the rule of the British for around 200 years. The British Raj was the crown rule over India and it was estimated that the British rule was responsible for 35 million deaths. This was against the fact that the British actually "helped" India. In reality the British Raj was a mean system and a repressive regime. So, later on British India got their independence from the British and split into 2 new countries called India and Pakistan. There were lots of other factors though. Other ideas played key roles in the partition of India, like the 2 nation theory which stated that the Muslims and Indians were too different to be together. Then finally, after around 200 long years India got its freedom from the British Raj and partitioned into India and Pakistan.

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DescriptionThe Partition of India of 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, India and Pakistan. The Dominion of India is today the Republic of India; the Dominion of Pakistan is today the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
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