Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

The more conservative Chadian Democratic Union ( UDT ) was founded in November 1947 and represented French commercial interests and a bloc of traditional leaders composed primarily of Muslim and Ouaddaïan nobility.

He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

In 1947, the region of Bengal under the British Empire was partitioned into East and West Bengal which separated the Muslim majority eastern areas from the Hindu majority western areas.

From 1947 until 1954, the East Bengal was an independent administrative unit which was governed by the Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin.

In 1947, Karachi was the focus for settlement by Muslim migrants from India, who drastically expanded the city's population and transformed its demographics and economy.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and geographic contiguity with the Muslim-majority area of the Punjab ( in Pakistan ) could be convincingly demonstrated, the political developments during and after the partition resulted in a division of the region.

Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity, 1857 – 1947, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-547811-2

* 1947 – Partitioning of the British Raj into a secular Union of India and a Muslim Dominion of Pakistan.

In October 1947, Silver City became involved in the airlift of Hindu and Muslim refugees between Pakistan and India, following the Subcontinent's partitioning.

By the time of Partition in 1947 Sindh had had a Muslim majority for centuries but there were significant minorities of Hindus throughout the province.

In 1947 due to communal tensions and the influx of two million Muslim refugees from India many Hindus fled to India

The Law of September 20, 1947 granted French citizenship to all Algerian subjects, who were not required to renounce their Muslim personal status.

* Indian integration of Junagadh: The princely state of Junagadh, which had a Hindu majority and a Muslim ruler acceded to Pakistan on 15 September 1947, claiming a connection by sea.

On the eve of independence in 1947, India ( including present day Pakistan & Bangladesh ) contained more than 600 princely states, each with its own ruler, often styled Raja or Thakur ( if the ruler were Hindu ) or Nawab ( if he were Muslim ), with a host of less current titles as well.

Yasmin Saikia writes that " although a large number of Muslims migrated to Pakistan in 1947, the bulk of the Muslim population stayed in their homelands in India ".

Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity, 1857 – 1947, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-547811-2

Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860 — 1947.

On November 14, 1947, the Egyptian delegate at the United Nations stated that: ' The proposed solution might endanger a million Jews living in the Muslim countries.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

The Italian Eritreans strongly rejected the Ethiopian annexation of Eritrea after the war: the Party of Shara Italy was established in Asmara in July 1947 and the majority of the members were former Italian soldiers with many Eritrean Ascari ( the organization was even backed up by the government of Italy ).

In the Report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly, the majority of the Committee in Chapter VI proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with " an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem " ..., the last to be under " an International Trusteeship System ".

The Plan attached to the resolution was essentially that proposed by the majority of the Committee in the Report of 3 September 1947.

On that occasion the party won 48. 5 % of the vote, but, despite its absolute majority in the Italian Parliament, De Gasperi continued to govern at the head of a centrist coalition that included the Italian Workers ' Socialist Party ( PSLI-a 1947 break-away from the PSI ), the Liberals and the Republicans.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Labour Party's ultra-safe seat of Normanton at a by-election in 1947 ( when the Labour majority was 62 %), he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West in the 1950 general election.

The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.

The majority of the members of UNSCOP proposed certain recommendations for the UN General Assembly which on 29 November 1947 adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan, based substantially on those proposals as Resolution 181 ( II ).

* The success of the Intifada gave Arafat and his followers the confidence they needed to moderate their political programme: At the meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers in mid-November 1988, Arafat won a majority for the historic decision to recognise Israel's legitimacy ; to accept all the relevant UN resolutions going back to 29 November 1947 ; and to adopt the principle of a two-state solution.

The majority arrived in zoos between 1947 and 1965.

Before the partition of India in 1947, the Sikhs were not in majority in any of the pre-partition Punjab districts.

A year later, he played a key role in the 1947 parliamentary elections, which saw the Communists and their allies win an overwhelming majority.

Because the majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan were held by delegates elected in 1947, pending the promised retaking of mainland China, the Tangwai movement had no possibility of seizing power, but they were able to use the legislature as a forum for debating the ruling Kuomintang.

Second, because of the ROC ’ s claim to rule all of China, the vast majority of the seats in the Legislative Yuan ( parliament ) and National Assembly ( electoral college for the president, now abolished ) were held by those elected from mainland China constituencies in 1947 and 1948.

As a result, in 1947 the accession of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to Pakistan was made possible by a slight majority of the 50. 1 % votes cast.

Tripura was heavily affected by the partition of India and the majority of the population now comprises Bengalis, many of whom came as refugees from East Pakistan after independence in 1947.

While Communist sympathisers were highly present among their ranks ( which explains their history of engagement in the Résistance, and according to some due to a desire to practice entryism ), a purge limited their number after the French Communist Party ( PCF ) took on the role of opposition to postwar governments – following a demonstration in Marseille ( 12 November 1947 ) called by the CGT union and the PCF that the CRS, a majority of whom were Communists, refused to repress, several companies were dissolved and the CRS were reorganised so as to remove Communist influence among their ranks.

In 1947, Syd Nathan, the founder and owner of King Records, purchased a majority interest in DeLuxe.

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

In 1947, the Tibetan government wrote a note presented to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs laying claim to Tibetan districts south of the McMahon Line.

* List of Canadian electoral districts 1947 – 1952-262 seats

Boundaries for one or more electoral districts were updated in 1872, 1882, 1892, 1903, 1914, 1924, 1933, and 1947.

It was established in 1947 as an effort by the surrounding rural districts recognising it had become a regional service center.

It was redistributed into the new electoral districts of Pontiac — Témiscamingue and Villeneuve in 1947.

The last coal mine located close to the town centre ( Ravenhead Colliery ) and those that were located in the outlying districts of St Helens, including Clock Face ( Clock Face Colliery ), Sutton, ( Bold Colliery ), Sutton Heath ( Lea Green Colliery ), Haydock ( Lyme Pit, Wood Pit, Old Boston ), were closed during a period that lasted from the nationalisation of the deep coal mining industry in 1947 until the early 1990s.

Similarly, the decision to award India the Muslim-majority districts of Murshidabad and Malda in Bengal was kept so secret that the inhabitants hoisted the Pakistani flag there till the award was made public on 17 August 1947.

In 1947 / 48, Zografou became a municipality and encompassed the districts of Goudi and Ano Ilissia ( formerly Kouponia, Κουπόνια ).

On March 19, 1947 money was appropriated for establishing vocational schools in all school districts serving populations of at least 140, 000.

It was abolished in 1947 when it was redistributed into the Compton — Frontenac and Sherbrooke electoral districts.

In 1947, it was defined to consist of the city of Fort William and the southern parts of the territorial districts of Rainy River, Kenora and Thunder Bay adjacent to by the southern boundary of Canada.

In 1947, the riding was expanded to include the municipal districts of Hillside ( No. 3 ), and South Forks ( No. 18 ).

From 1947 to 1949, he was the director of Kyaikhami Provision Education that comprised eight districts.

Practice is common among member of Arain tribe who migrated from Eastern Punjab districts such as Amritsar, Jhullandhar, Gurdaspur, Ferozpur to Lahore and Multan during separation of Pakistan from British India in 1947 AD.

Executive Order No. 195 dated December 31, 1948 Segregating the Municipal districts of Lebak and Salaman from the Municipalities of Kiamba and Dinaig, Province of Cotabato, as organized under Executive Order No. 82 of August 18, 1947, and organized them into independent municipality under the name of Lebak with the seat of government at the Sitio of Kalamansig.