Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Understanding Partition

Question:

The given political outline Map of India shows six places marked as A, B, C, D, E and F. Choose the correct 'alphabet' from the options based on the following information.

The partition is said to be the most bloody and destructive in which of the following state of India?

Options:

F

E

C

B

Correct Answer:

B

Explanation:

While carnages occurred in Calcutta and Noakhali in 1946, the Partition was the most bloody and destructive in Punjab. The near-total displacement of Hindus and Sikhs eastwards into India from West Punjab and of almost all Punjabi-speaking Muslims to Pakistan happened in a relatively short period of two years between 1946 and 1948.