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Partition of India and creation of Pakistan
25-01-09
(...) The two countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947. However, the handing over the reins of power to Pakistan was done a day earlier on August 14, 1947 in Karachi so that the last Viceroy of India, Lord Louis Mountbatten, could attend both the ceremonies in Karachi and Delhi respectively. But there was a deeper reason for this. The British Empire did not want it to appear to the outside world that Pakistan had seceded from India after independence.
The border between India and Pakistan was based on the suggestions made by a London-based lawyer, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, and the border was referred to as the Radcliffe Line. The Hindu majority regions were given to India while the Muslim majority regions formed Pakistan. But this meant that erstwhile East Pakistan was geographically separated from West Pakistan by India. (...)
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