Please help and fast! Explain the effects of the partitioning of India on the people of the region.

The partitioning of India into separate states resulted in enormous challenges created by refugee problems. Millions did not want to live in either India or Pakistan, due to their religious beliefs. This resulted in a great deal of violence, killing about half a million people. Up to ten million more became refugees. Gandhi, who was well-respected and beloved by both sides, helped to end the violence by going on a hunger strike. He fasted, vowing not to eat until either he died or the fighting ceased. Unfortunately, he was assassinated just five months after independence by a Hindu extremist who hated his tolerance of Muslims.

Explanation:

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion