HIS282H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Communal Award, History Of The British Salt Tax In India, British Salt
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What were the immediate and long- term legacies of the partition of the sub-continent for south asia. Partition of india in 1947 was not inevitable: the rise of communal politics in india is only from the. 1890s (owing in part to the divisive colonial rule). The idea of a separate muslim state was not formulated until the 1940s. The most benefited groups to the british were muslim league. In 1940, league adopted pakistan as its goal for the political evolution of their community. The muslim majority areas were was given name pakistan, imagined as giant areas of confederation of discontinuities of states in 1933 by a group of cambridge students. By 1940, fast approaching independence impelled the league to proclaim that in constitutional plan the areas with majority muslims should be group to constitute independent states in which the constitute units should be autonomous. Nothing at this point was certain much less inevitable.
