The British Empire: The Partition of India

PowerPoint (with 7 slides) and one Word Documents that examine the reasons the partition of India resulted in violence.

Activities include

• Quick quiz starter activity on Gandhi and events in India before 1945.
• Matching activity on the attitude to Indian independence of the British, the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress after 1945.
• Analysis activity to identify flaws in Britain’s approach to partition with a focus on the roles of Mountbatten and Radcliffe.
• Map analysis exercises on why population distributions made the task difficult.
• Map analysis activity on the problems the final decisions on partition created; East Pakistan, Kashmir, the Radcliffe Line.
• Discussion based exercise with source prompts on why partition provoked communal violence.
• Source analysis activity on the causes of Gandhi’s assassination.

Designed for teaching an academically able Key Stage 3 class covering aspects of the British Empire.
Lesson Length: 1hr depending on pace.

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