Teaching about South Asia’s Partition

Published in Medium.

Excerpt: One out of every five people on the planet lives in South Asia, a region comprised of the nations of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. South Asia is also the site of one of the world’s largest mass migrations ever — the “Partition,” which — after 300 years of British economic intervention and later, political domination — formed the new nations of India, with a majority Hindu population (though envisioned to be a secular country), and Pakistan, with a majority Muslim population, in August of 1947. The new nation of Pakistan was divided into East and West Pakistan; East Pakistan later fought for its independence and became the nation of Bangladesh in 1971.

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Recommended Citation

Bajaj, M. (2021, August 17).Teaching about South Asia’s Partition. Available at: https://medium.com/@mibajaj/teaching-about-south-asias-partition-673287eaad98