AS AM 100FF Lecture 10: Lecture 10
15 Nov 2017
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1947: the beginning of the end of british empire. Suggestion and imagination: go back to the village model. The discovery of india by india"s first prime minister jawaharlal nehru. Has a formation of parliament that gandhi is against. Starting in the 1920s, and even earlier, muslim leaders began talking about an independent muslim state and by the time we reach 1947, the ideas for one were established. In 1947, south asia gained its independence from britain, and immediately the subcontinent was divided into india, pakistan, east pakistan. The formation of what gandhi called englistan: a parliament, state-civil society split. Once the lines were established, about 14. 5 million people crossed the borders to what they hoped was the relative safety of religious majority. Based on 1951 census of displaced persons, 7,226,000 muslims went to. Pakistan from india while 7,249,000 hindus and sikhs moved to india from.
