Question
“Some people think that partition of India was a very sudden.” Justify the statement.
Solution
The reasons:
(i) There was a very short time-Just seven years between the first formal articulation of the demand for a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas of the subcontinent and Partition.
(ii) Many who migrated from their homelands in 1947 thought they would return as soon as peace prevailed again.
(iii) Initially, even Muslim leaders did not seriously raise the demand for Pakistan as a sovereign state.
(iv) No one knew what the creation of Pakistan meant, and how it might shape people’s lives in the future.
