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Indian Muslim migration to Pakistan declined drastically in the 1970s, a trend noticed by the Pakistani authorities. In June 1995, Pakistan's interior minister, Naseerullah Babar , informed the National Assembly that between the period of 1973–1994, as many as 800,000 visitors came from India on valid travel documents.
The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcated by the two boundary commissions for the provinces of Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India.It is named after Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions, had the ultimate responsibility to equitably divide 175,000 square miles (450,000 km 2) of territory with 88 million people.
Before the partition of India in 1947, about 584 princely states, also called "native states", existed in India. [1] These were not part of British India, the parts of the Indian subcontinent which were under direct British administration, but rather under indirect rule, subject to subsidiary alliances.
This was implemented via Article 3 of the Indian Independence Act of 18 July 1947. The Radcliffe Line published on 17 August 1947 gave some areas of Sylhet – mainly Karimganj – to India , while the rest of Sylhet joined East Bengal , even though Karimganj had a Muslim-majority population which had opted for Pakistan, unlike some other areas ...
In August 2016, as part of an international conference commemorating 70 years of Partition at the Indian Museum in Kolkata, funded by The New Zealand India Research Institute (NZIRI) and The Ministry of Culture, Government of India, which was co-convened by Roy alongside historian Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Dr Jayanta Sengupta, this project was ...
The partition caused large-scale loss of life and an unprecedented migration between the two dominions. [15] Among refugees who survived, it solidified the belief that safety lay among co-religionists. In the instance of Pakistan, it made palpable a hitherto only-imagined refuge for the Muslims of British India. [16]
The partition of Bengal in 1905 , there were seven divisions in Bengal : Presidency Division; Burdwan Division; Patna Division; Bhagalpur Division; Tirhut Division; Chota Nagpur Division; Orissa Division; After the reunited of Bengal in 1911, the boundaries of Bengal were changed and the Bengal were divided five divisions . viz : Presidency ...
India in 1947, before the partition, included the modern Republic of India, along with the land that became Islamic Republic of Pakistan and People's Republic of Bangladesh. [1] Indian reunification refers to the potential reunification of India (the Republic of India) with Pakistan and Bangladesh, which were partitioned from British India in 1947.