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What prompted more than 14 million people to migrate when the borders of India and Pakistan became public?
The property that they owned on the other side of the border.
Their ethnic identity.
Their families on the other side of the border.
Their religious identity.
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Their religious identity.
When the new borders were announced at Partition (1947), most people moved to the side where their religious community was the majority—Muslims to Pakistan, Hindus and Sikhs to India—fueled by fear, communal violence, and desire to live where their religion would be dominant.
When the new borders were announced at Partition (1947), most people moved to the side where their religious community was the majority—Muslims to Pakistan, Hindus and Sikhs to India—fueled by fear, communal violence, and desire to live where their religion would be dominant.
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