India Partition

3. The leader of Muslims who advocated for a separate state after Indian Independence; he is now known as the founder of Pakistan.
5. An adjective that means “non-religious.”
6. This British leader presided over the partitioning of British India into India and Pakistan. He moved the timeline up so that time for deliberation was lessened by 10 months.
8. This region started out as part of Pakistan, but later joined India. Today, gunfire and shelling occur along this contested border -- that is, India and Pakistan are still fighting over this area.
11. While there were two large religious groups in British India, there were also several other religious ____________ who did not get their own nation states after independence.
12. This man wanted India to remain a single country after independence (that means he argued against the formation of Pakistan). He became the first Prime Minister of India when it gained independence.
13. India and Pakistan were part of the ____________ Empire before 1947.

1. This country was originally named East Pakistan when India and Pakistan achieved independence, but in 1971 it became a separate country with a different name.
2. The ____________ people were the religious majority in British India.
4. In this city, violence between Muslims and Hindus over the formation of an interim government led to the deaths of approximately 5,000 people in August of 1946.
7. Between 300,000 and one million refugees lost their lives during ____________.
9. The ____________ people were a religious minority in British India, and wanted to have a separate state after independence.
10. Because of the partition, approximately 15 million people ____________ from one area to another within India and Pakistan.