Detailed Instructions: You are given a paragraph, with numbered sentences, and a question. Write the numbers of the sentences needed to answer the given question. Separate multiple sentence numbers with a comma (", "). E.g. "1, 2" would be the correct response if Sent 1 and Sent 2 are needed to answer the given question (do not include sentences that contain no information that is necessary to answer the question). Sort the sentence numbers in an increasing order (i.e., '1, 2', instead of '2, 1'). Your answer should not contain anything than the sentence numbers separated by a comma (e.g. '1, 2, 3, 4'). The given question requires more than one sentence to answer. So, your answer must contain at least one comma (", ").
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India’s independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups.
Sent 2: Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus — and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Sent 3: Nehru’s Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.
Sent 4: As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Sent 5: The seeds of future trouble were sown.
Sent 6: The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition.
Sent 7: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.
Sent 8: A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning “pure”), and adding “stan,” the Persian suffix for the word “country.
Sent 9: ” The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Sent 10: Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Sent 11: Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.
Sent 12: This put more than 60,000 in jail.
Sent 13: Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first.
Sent 14: Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a “Quit India” campaign in the year 1942.
Sent 15: Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator.
Sent 16: Winston Churchill didn’t want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee’s Labor Party in 1945.
Sent 17: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India’s last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.
Sent 18: Quick it was — six months after his arrival — but not smooth. 
Question: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India. This proposal began the birth of what country?.
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Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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7, 8.