ia and abroad. Representatives were sent from all parts of the world to the British Prime Minister asking the Government to release Gandhi and make peace with India. The Government under pressure, at last released Gandhi. The demand for Indian independence had now grown into a world-wide question. Apart from India's own attitude, America and other countries pressed Britain to grant freedom to India. Two months later in May 1945, the Labor party came into power in Britain and Attlee became the Prime Minister. A few months later, the British Government announced that they expected to grant self-government to India as soon as her internal problems could be solved.This was a victory for India. It was a victory for non-violence. Britain, defeated by the peaceful revolution, could not hold onto India any longer. Britain agreed to a planned withdrawal from India, without bitterness and in friendship. All through his life Gandhi had worked for unity between the Hindus and the Muslims. But he had not had much success. There was a large section of nationalist Muslims in the Congress, but the heads of the Muslim league were drifting further and further away. Gandhi was not the man to give up hope, however, and he pursued his efforts to bring about a settlement. On August 15, 1947, India's long struggle and suffering for freedom was over. A new nation, although split in two, was born. Gandhi had never given his approval to partition, but when it was done he accepted it and did everything possible for the attainment of Hindu-Muslim friendship. Yet the tension between Hindus and Muslims continued to increase. As a result of the partition, over seven-hundred thousand Hindus, Sikhs, and other non-Muslims in Pakistan, fearing the Muslims, left their homes and set out towards security in India. From India, about the same number of Muslims, fearing the Hindus, left their homes for Pakistan. The miseries on the mass migration, one of the greatest in histor...
