HIS-1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Two-State Solution, Arabian Sea, Ruhollah Khomeini
17 Nov 2016
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The cold war and the weird world it created. India develops a sense of nationalism between ww1 and ww2 and wants to become independent. When ww2 ends, britain decides it can no longer maintain its colony of india: ww2 economically ruined britain. The want to create a separate nation. Day of direct action (may 1946: ends up being violent; 6,000 people killed in riots across india. Showed a lack of reconciliation between the two groups. August 1947 india and pakistan, the north-western corner of british india, are independent: many hindus and muslims were out of place. Over the next year, ~10 million people emigrate; some move voluntarily, some forcibly: over 1. 5 million people die, due to exposure and to violence from both groups. Viole(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)(cid:396)eaks out (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they"(cid:396)e a(cid:374)g(cid:396)y they ha(cid:448)e to (cid:373)o(cid:448)e. Gandhi geos on a hunger strike for peace: before the strike ends, he is assassinated by a radical hindu.
