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What happened in 1947 was / not so much the partition of ,, the whole of Britain's Indian Empire as the partition of two of its eleven provinces: Punjab and Bengal.
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Bengal and Punjab Jean Alphonse Bernard What happened in 1947 was / not so much the partition of ,, the whole of Britain's Indian Empire as the partition of two of its eleven provinces: Punjab and Bengal. If one considers the North East, Orissa, the Central Provinces, the Bombay State and the whole of peninsular India, not much happened there between July and October of this fateful year. Assam itself was little disrupted in spite of having lost the district of Sylhet to East Bengal. Violence, it is true, erupted in Delhi on a large scale and vast migrations of people took place in Uttar Pradesh and in Bihar. There it was clearly a reverberation of what happened in Punjab and Bengal. Even the events in the Princely State of Kashmir -from the rumours running in the Poonch district that Muslims were massacred in East Punjab, to the raid of Pashtun tribes...
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