This event was preceded by riots in Noakhali, as well as a Direct Day of Action against the Cabinet Mission Plan that led to mass killings in the Week of the Long Knives. Writings supporting this event include the 1933 pamphlet “Now or Never,” published in the wake of the Round Table Conferences, as well as a resolution commemorated by a minaret-shaped monument in Iqbal Park. This action was carried out along the Radcliffe Line, which controversially neglected the Chittagong Hill Tracts and split the provinces of Bengal and Punjab. Lord Mountbatten was criticized for rushing this event, which saw massive population transfers and sectarian violence between Hindus and Muslims. For 10 points, name this August 1947 event that split the British Raj into two independent South Asian nations.
This event was preceded by riots in Noakhali, as well as a Direct Day of Action against the Cabinet Mission Plan that led to mass killings in the Week of the Long Knives. Writings supporting this event include the 1933 pamphlet “Now or Never,” published in the wake of the Round Table Conferences, as well as a resolution commemorated by a minaret-shaped monument in Iqbal Park. This action was carried out along the Radcliffe Line, which controversially neglected the Chittagong Hill Tracts and split the provinces of Bengal and Punjab. Lord Mountbatten was criticized for rushing this event, which saw massive population transfers and sectarian violence between Hindus and Muslims. For 10 points, name this August 1947 event that split the British Raj into two independent South Asian nations.
This event was preceded by riots in Noakhali, as well as a Direct Day of Action against the Cabinet Mission Plan that led to mass killings in the Week of the Long Knives.