[WiseMen]

According to my information, when the British left India, and It was declared a democracy, the Muslims thought that in a free country, they would not get their due respect as a religion because Muslims were only about 1/5th in population.
They felt that their great Muslim leaders would not get a chance to lead the independent India as a Prime Minister or as a President...therefore they demanded a seperate state/country where they could live and chose their own leaders from their own faith/religion.
I have watched the movie "Gandhi" that shows the kind of tension and concern on Gandhi's face when he learns that the Muslims want a seperate state/country. So the top leaders meet from both the major religions (Hindu & Islam) and draw a line thru the map of India which comes to be known as Pakistan.
What follows then is leaders from both the faiths appealing to their respective brothers and asking them to chose a side of that "line"/border so that they remain in Pakistan or India.
Interesting fact, is that even today, India has a larger population of Muslims living in India than the population of Muslims in Pakistan....

[AmishDude]

I have watched the movie "Gandhi" [oh geez] that shows the kind of tension and concern on Gandhi's Ben Kingsley's face when he learns that the Muslims want a seperate state/country.

Should'a stuck with the bolded paragraph.