what are the reasons that led to the partition of India and Pakistan?

Question

we can find in history that India and Pakistan were a joined country and it was split into two different countries , can any body tell me what are the reasons which led to this partition

Answer 1

India's religion is primarily Hindu with a Muslim minority. Pakistan was founded as a nation for Muslims in South Asia.

". . .the Muslim League rose to popularity in the late 1930s amid fears of under-representation and neglect of Muslims in politics. On 29 December 1930, (the) presidential address called for a separate Muslim state in northwest and eastern South Asia. President Muhammad Ali Jinnah espoused the Two Nation Theory and led the Muslim League to adopt the Lahore Resolution[12] of 1940 (popularly known as Pakistan Resolution), which ultimately led to the creation of Pakistan.

The two wings of Pakistan in 1970; East Pakistan separated from the West wing in 1971 as an independent Bangladesh.Pakistan was formed on 14 August 1947 with two Muslim-majority wings in the eastern and northwestern regions of British India, separated from the rest of British India with a Hindu majority, and comprising the provinces of Balochistan, East Bengal, the North-West Frontier Province, West Punjab and Sindh. The partition of British India resulted in communal riots[13] across India and Pakistan—millions of Muslims moved to Pakistan and millions of Hindus and Sikhs moved to India. Disputes arose over several princely states including Jammu and Kashmir whose ruler had acceded to India, while the majority of the population favored independence, leading to the First Kashmir War (1948) ending with Pakistan occupying roughly one-third of the state. From 1947 to 1956, Pakistan was a Dominion in the Commonwealth of Nations. The republic declared in 1956 was stalled by a coup d'etat by Ayub Khan (1958–69), who was president during a period of internal instability and a second war with India in 1965. . ."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan

Answer 2

They split because of religious differences between Muslims and Hindus. The Hindus were in India, the Muslims were in Pakistan. Then, Pakistan split into Pakistan and Bangladesh because they were so far apart.

Answer 3

The British partitioned their colony of India into two seperate countries, Pakistan and India, because they wished to keep the Muslims from ruling the entire subcontinent, as the Mughal rulers had done. More information at citation.

Answer 4

You can read about it here (an article on the partition of India and Pakistan):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India

Answer 5

Hindus and Muslims belonged to two different civilizations which were based on conflicting ideas of conception and the idea to unite them as one nation was more conflicting than their conflict. The creation of Pakistan was the logical outcome of injustices faced by Indian Muslims by the hands of majority.
The history of Hindu Muslim political disparity was actually originated from The Independence War of 1857. The 1857’s uprising was a joint effort of both Hindus and Muslims against English rule. But After the failure of the uprising and fall of Delhi, Hindu political leaders and the Hindu press, in trying to evade British revenge took charge against the Muslims and set the responsibility of so-called mutiny on Muslims. This way they safe guarded their benefits and Muslims in turned faced the horrific consequences of their participation in the uprising.
In 1867, nationalists were divided for the first time into Hindu and Muslim camps when Hindu religious zealots termed “Urdu”, the official language of India as the language of Muslims and started processions and protests to change Urdu to Dev Nagri Hindi. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the most notable Muslim intellectual and biggest supporter of Hindu-Muslim unity who, few years ago gave the famous line. ”Hindus and Muslims are Two Beautiful Eyes of a Beautiful Bride”. When saw the Hindu Nationalists are turning away their faces, first time in history stated that Muslims of India are a distinctive nation.
Final blow to Hindu-Muslim unity was annulment of partition of Bengal (1911). Bengal was a province with vast area and massive population. For administrative reasons British parted it into two provinces. Muslims became majority in East Bengal. Infuriated, Hindu conservatives and Indian National Congress started civil disobedience movement to force British rule to concede their decision. The annulment of partition of Bengal proved, once again that Hindu majority would not do any thing to protect the basic interests of Muslims and detachment from nationalist agenda was crucial for their survival.
From then on, every political development was shadowed by distrust among the diverse faiths of sub-continent. Indian National Congress, quasi-nationalists and the representatives of majority did little to curb its racism towards minorities. Without getting into the emotional rhetoric about the human rights violations against Muslims, 1937’s Congress’ provincial majority was the last nail in the coffin of united India. So in 1940, Lahore resolution was passed and promulgated by All India Muslim League, which fixed a path for the Muslim nation that was the path, which led a sovereign state for the Muslim nation.

Answer 6

It was mostly due to religious schism.