Partition of India

The partition of India was the process by which British dependencies and treaty states in the Indian subcontinent were granted independence in the 1940s. The divisions resulted in the creation of four new independent states—India, Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Pakistan (including modern-day Bangladesh)—and sowed the seeds for later conflicts between India and Pakistan.

External links

• Partition of India by A G Noorani.
• Pre-Partition Map of India
• The Story of Pakistan
• The library of the University of California at Berkeley maintains a collection of pointers to online documents South Asian History: Colonial India, including numerous documents about independence and partition
• Fordham University maintains an archive of relevant public-domain documents.
• One scholar's bibliography