Partition violence and population exchange
1947–1948 · Event
Mass migration and communal massacres accompany Partition, killing hundreds of thousands.
On these timelines: Partition of India, India, Master
More from Partition of India
- Pakistan independence (1947)
- Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (1948)
- Nehru's 'Tryst with Destiny' (1947)
- Direct Action Day (1946)
- Radcliffe Line drawn (1947)
- The Indian Independence Act passes (1947)
- The Lahore Resolution demands Pakistan (1940)
- Attlee sets a deadline for leaving India (1947)
Around 1947
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)