Partition of India potential for increased violence, the new viceroy, Louis Mountbatten, advanced the date for the transfer of power, allowing less than six months for a mutually agreed plan for independence. In June 1947, the nationalist leaders, including Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad on behalf of the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, B. R. Ambedkar representing the Untouchable community, and Master Tara Singh representing the Sikhs, agreed to a partition of the country along religious lines in stark opposition to Gandhi's views. The predominantly Hindu and Sikh areas were assigned to the new India and predominantly Muslim areas to the new
India–Pakistan cricket rivalry <nowiki>*</nowiki> <nowiki>*</nowiki> <nowiki>*</nowiki> The table only includes those World Cup tournaments where India and Pakistan faced each other The table only includes those Champions Trophy tournaments where India and Pakistan faced each other <nowiki>*</nowiki> <br> <nowiki>*</nowiki> The table contains details and results only of matches played between India and Pakistan in the respective series and not matches with other teams involved in the series. ICC World Twenty20 The table only includes those World T20 tournaments where India and Pakistan faced each other After the partition in 1947, Pakistan emerged to play cricket. But India had already been playing cricket matches