The Partition of India and Pakistan posed a lot of difficulties due to various reasons. Choose the correct options from below with respect to the Partition of India.

1. There was no single belt of Muslim-majority areas in British India.
2. Not all Muslim-majority areas wanted to be in Pakistan.
3. Two of the Muslim-majority provinces of British India, Punjab and Bengal, had very large areas where the non-Muslims were in the majority.

1,2 and 3

It was decided to follow the principle of religious majorities for the partition of India and Pakistan. This basically means that areas, where the Muslims were in the majority, would make up the territory of Pakistan. The rest was to stay with India. The idea might appear simple, but it presented all kinds of difficulties. There was no single belt of Muslim-majority areas in British India. There were two areas of concentration, one in the west and one in the east. There was no way these two parts could be joined. So it was decided that the new country, Pakistan, will comprise two territories. Also, not all Muslim-majority areas wanted to be in Pakistan. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, the undisputed leader of the North Western Frontier Province and known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’, was staunchly opposed to the two-nation theory. The Muslim-majority provinces of British India, Punjab, and Bengal, had very large areas where the non-Muslims were in the majority. Eventually, it was decided that these two provinces would be bifurcated according to the religious majority at the district or even lower level.