1. The Partition of India took place after WWII.
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2. Clement Attlee, the British Prime Minister at that time, refused to give independence to India. |
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3. Britain could no longer afford to rule India.
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4. C. Attlee planned to make Hindus and Muslims work together.
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5. M. A. Jinnah was the leader of the Muslim League.
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6. The Muslim League was founded in 1906 and advocated a united Muslim India. |
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7. Jawarhal Nehru was the leader of the Indian National Congress.
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8. Nehru became convinced that India would have to be partitioned. |
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9. Nehru wanted to create an India where there would be no religious influence on the government.
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10. Gandhi supported the partition. |
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11. Nehru, Gandhi and Jinnah refused C. Attlee's plan to make Hindus and Muslim work together. |
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12. C. Attlee chose Lord Louis Mountbatten to be viceroy (i.e. British governor general of India). |
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13. C. Atllee asked him to plan a partition. |
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14. Mountbatten was a cousin of King George VII and he knew India very well. |
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15. When he arrived in India there was widespread violence between Muslim and Hindus.
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16. After the election, Nehru and Jinnah refused to take part in the new government.
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17. Jinnah called for “Direct Action” in September 1946 against the Congress. |
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18. The Muslim League was founded in 1906 and had always advocated a united-Muslim India. |
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19. In Calcutta 5,000 died during a riot where Hindus and Muslims attacked each other. Many more were to die in the months which followed.
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20. Gandhi finally had to accept that a united India was an impossible challenge.
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21. Gandhi used fasting to try to reason with people and calm things down. |
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22. In June 47, Mountbatten met Jinnah and Nehru and put forward his plan for Partition.
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23. In August 1947 British India was divided into the dominions of India, mainly Hindu, and Pakistan, a Muslim state.
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24. Gandhi continued his peace-keeping efforts and took no part in the Independence celebrations.
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25. He was murdered on January 30, 1948 by a Muslim extremist. |
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26. Nehru became the first Prime Minister of India after independence.
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