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The document outlines India's partition in 1947 as specified in the Indian Independence Act, which resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj and the creation of independent India and Pakistan on August 15th. During the partition, an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 women were kidnapped and raped. India and Pakistan later worked to repatriate abducted women, with Muslim women sent to Pakistan and Hindu and Sikh women to India. The two-nation theory, which served as the basis for partition and the creation of Pakistan as a separate Muslim state, argues that Hindus and Muslims constitute two distinct nations given their differing religious and social customs.

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The document outlines India's partition in 1947 as specified in the Indian Independence Act, which resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj and the creation of independent India and Pakistan on August 15th. During the partition, an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 women were kidnapped and raped. India and Pakistan later worked to repatriate abducted women, with Muslim women sent to Pakistan and Hindu and Sikh women to India. The two-nation theory, which served as the basis for partition and the creation of Pakistan as a separate Muslim state, argues that Hindus and Muslims constitute two distinct nations given their differing religious and social customs.

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India's partition was outlined in the independence Act 1947 and resulted in the British Raj's

dissolution. The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence
at midnight on 15 August 1947. During the Partition of India, violence against women was an
extensive issue. It is estimated that during the partition, between 75,000 and 100,000 women
were kidnapped and raped. India and Pakistan later worked to repatriate the abducted women.
Muslim women were to be sent to Pakistan and Hindu and Sikh women to India. The two-
nation theory means that the Hindus and the Muslims are two different nations. Based on the
two-nation idea, the Quaid-i-Azam demanded India's partition into two states, a Muslim state
to be called Pakistan and the other Hindu India that is Bharat.

 The two-nation theory is the basis of the creation of United Pakistan. It states that
Muslims and Hindus are two separate nations by definition; that Muslims have their
customs, religion, tradition, and from social and moral points of view, Muslims are
different from Hindus; therefore, Muslims should be able to have their separate
homeland in which Islam can be practiced as the dominant religion.
 The two-nation theory was a founding principle of the Pakistan Movement (i.e., the
ideology of Pakistan as a Muslim nation-state in South Asia) and India's partition in
1947.
 Opposition to the theory has come from two sources. The first is the concept of a single
Indian nation, of which Hindus and Muslims are two intertwined communities.
 The second source of opposition is Indians or Muslims, or Hindus of the subcontinent.
 Instead, the subcontinent's relatively homogeneous provincial units are actual nations
and deserving of sovereignty; this view has been presented by the Baloch, Sindhi, and
Pashtun.

In its most straightforward way, the two-nation theory means cultural, political, religious,
economic, and social dissimilarities between the two major communities, Hindus and Muslims
of the Subcontinent.

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