... Muslims, in order to win them over to their side, the British helped support the All-India Muslim Conference. They instilled the notion that the Muslims were a separate political entity and gave the Muslims separate electorates in local government all over British India. Thus the idea of the separateness of Muslims in India was built into the electoral process of India. Muslim ... Hindu members of the Congress party were opposed to partition because they didn't want to lose the territory or divide the people. On August 16, 1946, in its demand for a separate Pakistan, the Muslim League c...

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