Rare Picture of India and Pakistan partition

The Partition of India was the process of dividing the subcontinent along sectarian lines, which took place in 1947 as India gained its independence from the British Raj. The northern, predominantly Muslim sections of India became the nation of Pakistan, while the southern and majority Hindu section became the Republic of India.

In 1885, the Hindu-dominated Indian National Congress (INC) met for the first time. When the British made an attempt to divide the state of Bengal along religious lines in 1905, the INC lead huge protests against the plan. This sparked the formation of the Muslim League, which sought to guarantee the rights of Muslims in any future independence negotiations.

Although the Muslim League formed in opposition to the INC, and the British colonial government attempted to play the INC and Muslim League off one another, the two political parties generally cooperated in their mutual goal of getting Britain to "Quit India." Both the INC and the Muslim League supported sending Indian volunteer troops to fight on Britain's behalf in World War I; in exchange for the service of more than 1 million Indian soldiers, the people of India expected political concessions up to and including independence.

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India-Pakistan Partition Picture

1948 Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral procession.

1948 The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta

An aged and abandoned Muslim couple and their grand children sitting by the the roadside on this arduous journey. The old man is dying of exhaustion. The caravan has gone on, wrote Bourke-White.

Aug. 15, 1947 Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

Aug. 15, 1947 Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

In a couple of months in the summer of 1947, a million people were slaughtered on both sides in the religious rioting. Here, bodies of the victims of rioting are picked up from a city street.