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Correct Answer: Option (C) — they wanted to avoid large-scale communal riots
Concept & Option Breakdown
Standard Reference VerifiedThe Congress leadership agreed to partition in 1947 primarily as a tragic, unavoidable necessity to prevent widespread communal violence, mass slaughter, and impending civil war that followed Direct Action Day (1946).
Congress never ideologically accepted the Two-Nation Theory; partition was conceded to prevent escalating communal bloodbaths and chaos.
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