Editing Population transfer (section)

===Indian subcontinent===
{{See also|Partition of India|Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus}}
[[File:Refugees on train roof during Partition.ogv|thumb|Video of refugees on train roof during partition of India]]
When [[British India]] was going through an independence movement prior to the [[World War II|Second World War]], some pro-Muslim organisations (most notably the Muslim League) demanded a Muslim state consisting of two non-contiguous territories: [[East Pakistan]] and [[West Pakistan]]. To facilitate the [[Partition of India|creation of new states along religious lines]] (as opposed to racial or linguistic lines as people shared common histories and languages), [[Partition of India#Independence and population exchanges|population exchanges between India and Pakistan]] were implemented. More than 5 million [[Hindu]]s and [[Sikhs]] moved from present-day Pakistan to present-day India, and the same number of [[Muslims]] moved the other way.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} A large number of people, more than a million by some estimates, died in the accompanying violence. Despite the movement of large number of Muslims to Pakistan, an equal number of Muslims chose to stay in India. However, most of the Hindu and Sikh population in Pakistan moved to India in the following years. The Muslim immigrants to Pakistan mostly settled in [[Karachi]] and became known as the Urdu speaking [[Muhajir (Urdu-speaking people)|Muhajir community]].

From 1989 to 1992, the ethnic Hindu Kashmiri Pandit population was forcibly moved out of [[Kashmir]] by a minority Urdu-speaking Muslims.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} The imposition of [[Urdu]] led to a decline of usage of local languages such as Kashmiri and Dogri. The resultant violence led to the death of many Hindus and the exodus of nearly all Hindus.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

On the [[Indian Ocean]] island of [[Diego Garcia]] between 1967 and 1973, the British government forcibly removed 2000 [[Chagossians|Chagossian]] islanders to make way for a [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. Armed Forces]] base. Despite court judgments in their favour, they have not been allowed to return from their exile in [[Mauritius]], but there are signs that financial compensation and an official apology are being considered by the British government.