How to Teach Students About the Partition of India and Pakistan
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Excerpt: One out of every five people on the planet lives in South Asia, which comprises Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and about 5.4 million people of South Asian descent live in the United States. Very few educators, however, know or teach about Partition, which after 300 years of British economic intervention and, later, political domination formed the new nations of India and Pakistan in August 1947. Pakistan was divided into East and West Pakistan; East Pakistan later fought for its independence and became the nation of Bangladesh in 1971. From 1946 to 1948, an estimated 14 million people migrated, and 1 million to 2 million were killed.
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Edutopia. (2021, August 17). How to Teach Students About the Partition of India and Pakistan. Available at: https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-teach-students-about-partition-india-and-pakistan