Colonialism and migration

Why did the Partition of India happen?

2 sourcesDrawn from Satya’s sourced local record.

Satya's local record documents the event itself, not a full account of the causes and choices that led to it.

Independence and Partition (1947): British rule ends at midnight on 15 August; the subcontinent is partitioned into India and Pakistan amid vast displacement.

What the record shows

• Independence and Partition (1947)event
  British rule ends at midnight on 15 August; the subcontinent is partitioned into India and Pakistan amid vast displacement.

Sources

• Curated ruler/event facts (project editors) (no public link on record) — editor-written from standard reference histories; pending per-fact primary citations
• Wikipedia (English) — tertiary; used for cross-checking and reader deep-links · CC-BY-SA 4.0 (text)

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