History A-Level
Partition and its human cost
What Partition and its human cost means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Partition was accepted because Congress and the League could not agree on a united India, and it was followed by massive communal violence and population movement, especially in Punjab and Bengal.
Topics that use Partition and its human cost
- The road to independence, 1942–48 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Bengal Famine
- Cabinet Mission
- Changing British political will under Labour
- Consequences of independence
- Cripps Mission
- Decolonisation and British withdrawal
- interim government
- International pressure and the USA’s role
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