Partition India facts
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India was partitioned into Pakistan and India, which incited violence and more than half a million deaths.
how big was india before partition?
About Abdul Ghaffar Khan. He was a Pashtun who was an activist for India's independence from British rule and was known as the Frontier Gandhi. He also opposed the partition of India and thus frequently got arrested by the Pakistani government. He died at age 97 in 1988 under house arrest.
What was one of the immediate effects caused by the partition of india?
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what was one of the immediate consequences of the partition of india?
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After the India-Pakistan partition in August 1947, the Reserve Bank of India served as the Central Bank of Pakistan till June 1948
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About the town of Pakistan, India, which is in the middle of a fiercely Hindu country and hundreds of miles from the Pakistan border. It was named Pakistan to commemorate the Muslims who moved to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) during the Partition of India.
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Once a year, India and Pakistan open their borders so that Sikhs from both countries can exchange scriptures and spend a few moments together - the Indian partition truly divided this community
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India is the 7th largest country by land area and 2nd most populous. If India wasn’t partitioned and Pakistan & Bangladesh were still parts of India or if 1 Billion Indian people today suddenly moved out of India it would still be the 7th largest and 2nd most populous country in the world.
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Despite the Partition of India in 1947 along religious lines, India still has almost as many Muslims as Pakistan- the third largest Muslim population in the world
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Gadar, a 2001 Indian film, almost caused nationwide riots because Muslims in India were not happy over the fact the movie, a love story between a Sikh man and a Muslim woman, showed suffering of the people of India during the 1947 partition, but not the suffering of the people of Pakistan.
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Current Pakistani National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz was already an adult at the time of India's Partition in 1947.
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India was spread from Afghanistan to Indonesia, and got partitioned each time it was invaded/colonized
