Partition of India.

The Partition of India refers to Britain's division of India into two states, India and Pakistan, in 1947. From the mid-eighteenth century onward, India had been under harsh colonial rule. While the British left voluntarily, little went smoothly. The transition from colonial rule to two independent countries, one primarily Hindu and the other primarily Muslim, was one of the most violent and dramatic events of its century. In the mass migration of Hindus to India and Muslims to Pakistan, more than a million people were killed.