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  2. United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II).

  3. File:1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.svg

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    The meaning of the map colors is as follows (a legend caption is available in template form here): Blue = area assigned to a Jewish state in the original UN partition plan, and within the 1949 Israel armistice lines. Green = area assigned to an Arab state in the original UN partition plan, and controlled by Egypt or Jordan from 1949-1967.

  4. Portal:Countries - Wikipedia

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    After the failure of the UN's 1947 partition plan and the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, Israel declared its independence on 14 May 1948. The armies of neighboring Arab states invaded the area of the former Mandate the next day, beginning the First Arab–Israeli War.

  5. 1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election - Wikipedia

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    "1947 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. "Table 31 Parliament Election (1947)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Rajasingham, K. T. (20 October 2001). "Chapter 11: On the threshold of freedom". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Asia Times.

  6. The 1947 Partition Archive - Wikipedia

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    In 2023, the Archive started to observe June 3 as the Partition Remembrance Day because it was on this day in 1947 that the viceroy declared the Mountbatten Plan to divide India. [3] It also announced to launch a book with 4000 oral testimonies and 1000 photographs illustrating the voices of the partition survivors spread across various ...

  7. Partition of India - Wikipedia

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    The two-nation theory was a founding principle of the Pakistan Movement (i.e., the ideology of Pakistan as a Muslim nation-state in South Asia), and the partition of India in 1947. [25] Theodore Beck, who played a major role in founding of the All-India Muslim League in 1906, was supportive of two-nation theory.

  8. Indian reunification - Wikipedia

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    In the 1950s, the Sri Aurobindo Sevak Sangha included in their programme "Annulment of the ill-fated partition and reunification of India." [ 11 ] On 4 February 4, 1957, the Muslim League's Morning News published an article stating that "there is a party even in Pakistan which is working for reunification and it is growing in strength", with ...

  9. Decolonisation of Asia - Wikipedia

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    1947 Partition of India Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan on 26 March 1971. Qatar: British Qatari Protectorate 3 September: 1971 Seychelles: 29 June: 1976 Singapore: 3 June: 1959 Became self-governing on 3 June 1959 and gained independence from Malaysia on 9 August 1965. Sri Lanka: Ceylon 4 February: 1948