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The Final Transfer Of Power In India, 1937-1947: A Closer Look, Sidhartha Samanta
The Final Transfer Of Power In India, 1937-1947: A Closer Look, Sidhartha Samanta
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The long freedom struggle in India culminated in a victory when in 1947 the country gained its independence from one hundred fifty years of British rule. The irony of this largely non-violent struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi was that it ended in the most violent and bloodiest partition of the country which claimed the lives of two million civilians and uprooted countless millions in what became the largest forced migration of people the world has ever witnessed. The vivisection of the country into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan did not bring the hoped for peace between the two neighbors. The …