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The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. [1] [2] The conflict started after the partition of India in 1947 as both India and Pakistan claimed the entirety of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Feb 20, 2023 · A nation split. Colonial rule in India, Britain's largest colony for nearly 200 years, ended on August 15, 1947. At the same time, the British empire partitioned the country into two: Hindu ...
Nov 6, 2017 · The conflict born in 1947 has led to three wars between India and Pakistan. An estimated 70,000 people have been killed in the violence in past three decades since the armed revolt against Indian ...
Aug 14, 2017 · A partition museum will open this week in the Indian city of Amritsar, containing items that were brought over from Pakistan by refugees. But outside southern Asia, the brutalities of partition ...
India’s first years of freedom were plagued by the tragic legacy of partition. Refugee resettlement, economic disruption and inadequate resources for virtually every need, continuing communal conflicts (as more than 10 percent of India’s population remained Muslim), and, within a few months of independence, the outbreak of undeclared war with Pakistan over Kashmir were but a few of the ...
Jul 26, 2017 · 26 July 2017. Getty Images. As India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of independence, Andrew Whitehead looks at the lasting legacy of the Partition of British India, and the turmoil and trauma ...
Jul 19, 2018 · History. The Partition of India was the division of the Presidencies and Provinces of British India conceived under the two-nation theory that resulted in formation of two independent dominions, India and Pakistan, in the British Commonwealth of Nations. The Indian Independence Act 1947 partitioned British India bringing an end of the British Raj.
