Question

Discuss the reasons behind the partition of India.

Answer 1

1. Muslim League was formed mainly to fight for the political rights of the Indian Muslims.
2. Jinnah revived the Muslim League in 1934 with the determination of demanding a separate state for Muslims.
3. By 1940 he was demanding a separate nation for Muslims arguing that in Independent India Muslims would lose all political power to the Hindus.
4. The Muslim league dubbed the congress as a Hindu organization.
5. The British policy of Divide and rule had encouraged the vested interests of the Muslims to exploit the religious differences.
6. Cripps mission declared that it would provide a federal government and the provinces were divided into three groups namely.
7. Non-Muslim majority provinces, Muslim majority provinces in the North west and in the North East.
8. This proposal was agreed by both the parties but interpreted it differently.
9. The Congress wanted the division temporary but the Muslim league wanted to be permanent.
10. Differences arose between the congress and the Muslim League led to the Hindu-Muslim conflicts bringing communal violence.
11. Finally Mountbatten plan - Two-Nation theory dividing India into two states India and Pakistan.
12. Partition of India was the ultimate outcome to split the unity of Independent India.