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Colonial India in 1947, before the partition, covering the territory of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Lord Linlithgow , Viceroy of India , declared war on India's behalf without consulting Indian leaders, leading the Congress provincial ministries to resign in protest. [ 51 ]
The tensions of an imminent war between India and Pakistan again rose by the heavy Indian firing on Pakistani military posts along the Line of Control and the subsequent deadly Indian Parliament attack and the 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff. [109] In 2002, 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya were killed in a train fire in Godhra, Gujarat.
The India–Pakistan border is the official international boundary that demarcates the Indian states of Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat from the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh. The Wagah border is the only road crossing between India and Pakistan and lies on the famous Grand Trunk Road, connecting Lahore, Pakistan with Amritsar, India.
Independent India, 1947 CE – present Dominion of ... that have been found of them date to only about 30,000 years before the present. ... in Pakistan) (see Map 3.1 ...
Pre-1947 maps of India, showing the modern states of Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of British India illustrate the borders of a proto-Akhand Bharat. [14] The creation of an Akhand Bharat is also ideologically linked with the concept of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) and the ideas of sangathan (unity) and shuddhi (purification). [15]
In 1947, the founding fathers of Pakistan agreed to appoint Liaquat Ali Khan as the country's first prime minister, with Muhammad Ali Jinnah as both first governor-general and speaker of the State Parliament. [58] Mountbatten had offered to serve as Governor-general of both India and Pakistan but Jinnah refused this offer. [59]
First edition 1938; 2nd 1947. Refer to this map as:— 70-MILE MAP INDIA SECOND EDITION; Published under the direction of Brigadier G. F. Heaney, C. B. E., Surveyor General of India, 1947. PRINTED AT THE SURVEY OF INDIA OFFICES (PLO). Note: The border with Pakistan is that of Radcliffe Line.
Map of the partition of India (1947). Note: Small princely states not acceding to either country upon independence are shown as integral parts of India and Pakistan. Items portrayed in this file