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State two immediate consequences of the partition of India.
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3 marksDifficulty: Medium
Why did the British decide to leave India in 1947?
Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Answer
Britain was exhausted and nearly bankrupt after the Second World War and could no longer bear the cost of holding India. The Indian National Movement had become a mass movement that could not be suppressed, and the INA trials and the naval mutiny showed that the armed forces were no longer dependable. The new Labour government was committed to Indian independence, and world opinion, particularly in the United States, was against the continuation of empire.
No citable source has been recorded for this record. Treat it as practice material, not as fact.
Explanation
Mountbatten advanced the date from June 1948 to August 1947 as communal violence grew.
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