The Indian Independence Act establishes two dominions
Section 1 of the Indian Independence Act provided for two independent dominions, India and Pakistan, from August 15, 1947.
What this does and does not establish
The section sets the legal transition. It gives no measure of the displacement and violence that accompanied partition, and does not describe the transition of every princely state.
- Region
- South Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 1947
- How we use it
- The section sets the legal transition. It gives no measure of the displacement and violence that accompanied partition, and does not describe the transition of every princely state.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Indian Independence Act 1947
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Quoted text (English)
two independent Dominions shall be set up in India, to be known respectively as India and Pakistan.Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . Credit: UK Parliament, legislation.gov.uk.
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Source checked 2026-11-13. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
This is a corrected version of this record. During research, before this release, an earlier version was set aside after independent review. This wording was reviewed separately.
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