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Explain any three consequences of partition of British India in 1947. 

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Explain the process and basis of the reorganisation of States of Indian Union.

 

Solution

Consequences of Partition:

 (i) Most abrupt, unplanned and tragic transfer of population that human history has known. There were killings and atrocities on both sides of the border. Cities like Amritsar and Kolkata divided into communal zones. People were forced to abandon their homes and move across borders, they went through immense sufferings.

 (ii) Thousands of women were abducted on both sides of the border, they were forced to change the religion and were forced into marriage. Many children were separated from their parents.

 (iii) The Partition was a division of properties, liabilities and assets as well as a political division of the country and the administrative apparatus. 
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(i) The formation of Andhra Pradesh spurred the struggle for making of other states on linguistic lines in other parts of the country.

 (ii) This struggle forced the central government into appointing a State Reorganization Commission in 1953 for redrawing of the boundaries of States.

 (iii) The Commission recommended boundaries should reflect the boundaries of different languages.

 (iv) On the basis of its report, the State Reorganization Act was passed in 1956. This led to the creation of 14 States and six Union Territories. 

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“In the history of nation-building only the Soviet experiment bears comparison with the Indian. There too, a sense of unity had to be forged between many diverse ethnic groups, religious, linguistic communities and social classes. The scale – geographic as well as demographic – was comparably massive. The raw material the state had to work with was equally unpropitious : a people divided by faith and driven by debt and disease. ”

—Ramachandra Guha

(a) List the commonalities that the author mentions between India and Soviet Union and give one example for each of these from India.

(b) The author does not talk about dissimilarities between the two experiments. Can you mention two dissimilarities ?

(c) In retrospect which of these two experiments worked better and why ?

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