Question: what are the reasons for partition of india

title: Partition of India
text: Train to Pakistan being given an honour - guard send - off . New Delhi railway station , 1947 Rural Sikhs in a long oxcart train headed towards India . 1947 . Two Muslim men ( in a rural refugee train headed towards Pakistan ) carrying an old woman in a makeshift doli or palanquin. 1947 . A refugee train on its way to Punjab , Pakistan