Partition of India: Division of British India into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan in 1947.
How to apply it: Use the Partition to discuss the violence, displacement, and communal conflict accompanying decolonization.
Course: AP World History · Unit: Cold War and Decolonization
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