Indian independence and Partition
1947 · Event
British India becomes independent as two states, India and Pakistan, after a long independence movement; partition, overseen by Mountbatten, is followed by violence that kills an estimated several hundred thousand to a million people.
On these timelines: Partition of India, India, United Kingdom (combined), Master, British Empire
More from India
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- British Raj (1858)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869)
Around 1947
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- World War II (1939)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)