Partition of India
Explore Partition of India on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Pakistan independence (1947)
- Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (1948)
- Partition violence and population exchange (1947)
- Nehru's 'Tryst with Destiny' (1947)
- Direct Action Day (1946)
- Radcliffe Line drawn (1947)
- The Indian Independence Act passes (1947)
- Mountbatten Plan (1947)
- Quit India Movement (1942)
- The Lahore Resolution demands Pakistan (1940)
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48 (Kashmir) (1947)
- Attlee sets a deadline for leaving India (1947)
- Integration of princely states into India (1947)
- Kashmir's maharaja signs the Instrument of Accession (1947)
- Bengal famine of 1943 (1943)
- Gandhi's last fast (1948)
- Gandhi walks through Noakhali (1946)
- Cabinet Mission to India (1946)
- The Royal Indian Navy mutinies (1946)
- Cripps Mission (1942)
- Jinnah dies a year into Pakistan (1948)
- Premiership of Jawaharlal Nehru (1947)
- 1945 Labour landslide (1945)
- Clement Attlee's premiership (1945)