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Muslims feared that their rights would not be protected in a land where Hindus were the majority.

Well that is the simplest answer that anyone can give, but there were many other factors involved and a lot of history behind it. In 1857 Britishers occupied the whole subcontinent (India+Pakistan+Bangladesh), and it was a deliberate attempt to divide one nation into two. for details you should checkout

http://umarshehzad.hubpages.com/hub/partitioning-of-India-1947

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