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.

See also

• Indian independence movement
• British Empire
• East Bengal (province)
• History of Bangladesh
• Bangladesh Liberation War
• History of India
• History of Pakistan
• Kashmiri insurgency
• Decolonisation
• Indo-Pakistani War of 1947