Question : ___________ announced the bifurcation of the British Indian Empire into a secular India and Islamic Pakistan.
Option 1: Lord Ripon
Option 2: Lord Dalhousie
Option 3: Lord Louis Mountbatten
Option 4: Lord Curzon
Correct Answer: Lord Louis Mountbatten
Solution : The correct answer is Lord Louis Mountbatten.
The announcement to bifurcate the British Indian Empire into a secular India and an Islamic Pakistan was made by Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India. This announcement and the subsequent partition of India took place on August 15, 1947, marking the end of British colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of two independent nations, India and Pakistan.
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