caa a22 4500 388042133 CHVBK 20180307125025.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199806 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020860400091026 doi S0020860400091026 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020860400091026 Rey-Schirr Catherine The ICRC's activities on the Indian subcontinent following partition (1947-1949) [Elektronische Daten] [Catherine Rey-Schirr] In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, the British government clearly stated its intention of granting independence to India. The conflict between the British and the Indian nationalists receded into the background, while the increasing antagonism between Hindus and Muslims came to the fore. The Hindus, centred round the Congress Party led by Jawaharlal Nehru, wanted to maintain the unity of India by establishing a government made up of representatives of the two communities. The Muslims, under the banner of the Muslim League and its President, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, demanded the creation of a separate Muslim State, Pakistan. The problem was further complicated by the fact that the approximately 300 million Hindus, 6 million Sikhs and 100 million Muslims in British India were not living in geographically distinct regions, especially in Punjab and Bengal, where the population was mixed. Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998 International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge University Press 38/323(1998-06), 267-291 0020-8604 38:323<267 1998 38 RCE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020860400091026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020860400091026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rey-Schirr Catherine NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge University Press 38/323(1998-06), 267-291 0020-8604 38:323<267 1998 38 RCE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge