Partition of India

In 1947 British rulers of India divided India in two countries. Pakistan consisting of Muslims majority provinces and India with Hindus and other religious majority people (cite?). This partition was due to the demands by Muslims who found it impossible to live with Hindus as they were socially, morally and religiously different from them.

Process of this Muslim Hindu separation was started out by Muslim educator Sir Syed Ahmed Khan who in 1857 established the Mohamadan Oriental Collage to educate Muslims in Aligarh which would later become known as the Aligarh University. In 1906, to counter the growing influence of Hindu majority, graduates of this university organized a party of their own and named it the All India Muslim League. This party played a pivotal role in making Muslims politically active and making the British aware of their concerns. Ultimately, in 1947 under the leadership of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the party succeeded in the creation of Pakistan. As Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and his colleague were working for Muslims to have a political voice, there were others, for example, Allan Octavian Hume and Dadabhai among others who, in 1885, organized the Indian National Congress party. Initially, its purpose was to demand the British government to provide more jobs for educated Indians but later on, under the leadership of Mohandas Gandhi and Pundit Nehru, it worked for Independence from British rule resulting in 1947 in creation of Hindu majority country India.

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan has become to be known as the most influential educationist and political Muslim leader in India (cite?). Before the British colonized India, Mogul Emperors encouraged education for both Hindus and Muslims in one pla...

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...Singh, into India .Pakistan not agreeing to this decision invaded Kasmir Pakistan in 1947 launched a military attack and succeeded in occupying a small part and established a province called Azad Kashmir. Since than there have been multiple wars between India and Pakistan on this issue and there has been ongoing struggle for independence within India’s Kashmir which India has been trying to forcibly put down resulting in wide spread human right abuses.

Lord Louis Mountbatten

Lord Mountbatten ,Born June 25th 1900 in England, was a decorated navy admiral who in 1947 became last Viceroy of India. As a viceroy he was tasked to negotiate with Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Gandhi and Nehru and overseas Independence of India and Pakistan. From 1947 to 1948 after independence he became the first governer general of India On august 27th 1979 He was assassinated in bomb blast.