The Partition of India was the division of British India[b] in 1947 which

accompanied the creation of two independent dominions, India and Pakistan.[3]

The Dominion of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of
Pakistan is today the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of
Bangladesh. The partition involved the division of three provinces, Assam,
Bengal and the Punjab, based on district-wide Hindu or Muslim majorities. The
boundary demarcating India and Pakistan came to be known as the Radcliffe Line.
It also involved the division of the British Indian Army, the Royal Indian Navy,
the Indian Civil Service, the railways, and the central treasury, between the two
new dominions. The partition was set forth in the Indian Independence Act 1947
and resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj, as the British government there
was called. The two self-governing countries of Pakistan and India legally came
into existence at midnight on 14�15 August 1947[4. ]
The partition displaced over 14 million people along religious lines, creating
overwhelming refugee crises in the newly constituted dominions; there was
largescale
violence, with estimates of loss of life accompanying or preceding the
partition disputed and varying between several hundred thousand and two