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Mind Map by jacksearle, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jacksearle
almost 11 years ago
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Factors Causing Partition
- WWII
- Indian Soldiers kept guns
after war - fear of unrest
- Indians wanted a reward after war
- Hit economy hard - British needed to
leave India quickly
- War declaration - Congress leaders resign -
Muslims take many positions of power
- Increased Muslim Power
- Increased Muslim Power
- War declaration - Congress leaders resign -
Muslims take many positions of power
- Hit economy hard - British needed to
leave India quickly
- Indians wanted a reward after war
- Indian Soldiers kept guns
after war - fear of unrest
- Pressure to leave quickly
- Economy - costing too much money - need to get out
- Unrest building
- Need to prove to British public that they'll keep to their word
- US pressure
- Economy - costing too much money - need to get out
- Innate Religious Differences
- Hindus Cows sacred/
Muslims pigs seen as dirty
- Muslim 1 God/Hindu 1 God in many forms
- too many key differences - shows they can never live together
- However lucknow pact/salt march/Gandhi's
campaigns showed they could
- Hindus Cows sacred/
Muslims pigs seen as dirty
- Jinnah + Muslim Demands
- Lahore Resolution 1940 - Demanded Pakistan -
didn't necessarily want it, but Muslims did
- 1946 Elections prove that partition was a popular
idea amongst muslims
- First Simla Conference 1945 - Jinnah rejects
all demands - makes him popular with Muslims
- Lahore Resolution 1940 - Demanded Pakistan -
didn't necessarily want it, but Muslims did
- Fear of Unrest
- British can't deal with Civil War - hoped
partition would sort out issue of violence
- Calcutta Killings 1946
- Moplah Rebellion 1921
- Both examples that Hindus and
Muslims cannot get along
- Both examples that Hindus and
Muslims cannot get along
- British can't deal with Civil War - hoped
partition would sort out issue of violence
- Gandhi/Congress/Nationalists
- Eventually accept partition - key part
in partition actually happening
- They accepted it on the idea they could prevent new state from working
- They accepted it on the idea they could prevent new state from working
- Congress cause the desire for partition
- 1937 elections, landslide victory - don't
allow muslims any seats prov govts
- Gandhi speaks for Muslims at 2nd roundtable conf
- Annoyed everyone- want own state
- Annoyed everyone- want own state
- 1937 elections, landslide victory - don't
allow muslims any seats prov govts
- Eventually accept partition - key part
in partition actually happening
- Labour Govt
- Wanted to grant India independence - want it done quick,
will pretty much accept any way to get it done
- Labour appointed Mountbattern - Incompetent - sided with Nehru
too much - couldn't solve problems between Hindus and Muslims
- There was always tension between Mountbatten and Jinnah - never going to work well together
- There was always tension between Mountbatten and Jinnah - never going to work well together
- Labour appointed Mountbattern - Incompetent - sided with Nehru
too much - couldn't solve problems between Hindus and Muslims
- Wanted to grant India independence - want it done quick,
will pretty much accept any way to get it done
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