partition of India

India’s bloody partition in August 1947, […] led to the deaths of at least 1 million Indians and the displacement of around 15 million

– ‘A Sikh soldier pulled me out of the rubble’: survivors recall India’s violen…

The borders for two independent states were drawn on religious lines: Hindu-majority India, and Muslim-majority West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In just a few months, thousands of years of cultural exchange and co-existence between India’s Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities, nightmarishly unravelled into panic, then terror, with millions rushing for the hastily established new borders as violence erupted.

– ‘A Sikh soldier pulled me out of the rubble’: survivors recall India’s violen…

In what was to become the British Raj’s swan song after two centuries of colonial rule, Cyril Radcliffe, a British judge who had never visited colonial India before, was appointed in July 1947 to carve through the ancient land within weeks.

– ‘A Sikh soldier pulled me out of the rubble’: survivors recall India’s violen…