Featured: India & Pakistan -the Partition

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A very compelling and must watch documentary from the BBC. Some background facts: 1858- The India Act: power transferred to British Government. 1885- Indian National Congress founded by Allen. O. Hume to unite all Indians and strengthen bonds with Britain. 1905- First Partition of Bengal for administrative purposes. Gives the Muslims a majority in that state. 1906- All India Muslim League founded to promote Muslim political interests. 1909-Revocation of Partition of Bengal. Creates anti-British and anti-Hindu sentiments among Muslims as they lose their majority in East Bengal. 1916-Lucknow Pact. The Congress and the League unite in demand for greater self-government. It is denied by the British. 1919- Amritsar Massacre. General Dyer opens fire on 20,000 unarmed Indian civilians at a political demonstration Congress and the League lose faith in the British. 1919-Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (implemented in 1921). Communal representation institutionalised for the first timeas reserved legislative seats are allocated for significant minorities. 1920-Gandhi launches a non-violent, non-cooperation movement, or Satyagraha, against the British for a free India. 1929-Congress calls for full independence. 1930-Dr. Allama Iqbal, a poet-politician, calls for a separate homeland for the Muslims at the Allahabad session of the Muslim League. Gandhi starts Civil Disobedience Movement against the Salt Laws by which the British had a monopoly over production and sale of salt. 1930-31-The Round Table conferences, set up to consider Dominion status for India. They fail because of non-attendance by the Congress and because Gandhi, who does attend, claims he is the only representative of all of India. 1931- Irwin-Gandhi Pact, which concedes to Gandhi's demands at the Round Table conferences and further isolates Muslim League from the Congress and the British. 1935-Government of India Act: proposes a federal India of political provinces with elected local governments but British control over foreign policy and defence. 1937-Elections. Congress gains majority. 1940- Jinnah calls for establishment of Pakistan in an independent and partitioned India. 1942-Cripps Mission o India, to conduct negotiations between all political parties and to set up a cabinet government. Congress adopts Quit India Resolution, to rid India of British rule. Congress leaders arrested for obstructing war effort. 1942-43-Muslim League gains more power: ministries formed in Sind, Bengal and North-West Frontier Province and greater influence in the Punjab. 1944-Gandhi released from prison. Unsuccessful Gandhi-Jinnah talks, but Muslims see this as an acknowledgment that Jinnah represents all Indian Muslims. 1946-Muslim League participates in Interim Government that is set up according to the Cabinet Mission Plan. 1947-Announcement of Lord Mountbatten's plan for partition of India, 3 June. Partition of India and Pakistan, 15 August. Radcliffe Award of boundaries of the nations, 16 August. 1971-East Pakistan separates from West Pakistan and Bangladesh is born.
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