Partition of 1947 continues to haunt India

5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of ...

14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 ...

The continuing legacy of partition in India's urban spaces - LSE Blogs

It has been 67 years since the partition of India, and yet its legacy continues to haunt the spaces and narratives of many Indian cities.

Partition of India | Summary, Cause, Effects, & Significance - Britannica

Partition of India, division of British India into the independent countries of India and Pakistan according to the Indian Independence Act ...

Partition 70 years on: The turmoil, trauma - and legacy - BBC

Partition of India in August 1947 · Perhaps the biggest movement of people in history, outside war and famine. · Two newly-independent states were ...

India and Pakistan are still haunted by partition and its bloodshed. Is ...

Thus India's Congress party's rejection of partition became, unwittingly, a key factor in Pakistan's radicalization, and its cultivation of ...

India Is Still Haunted By the Aftershocks of Partition

In August 1947, Great Britain granted independence to British India. The prized colonial possession was split into two new nations: Hindu ...

Giving Voice To Memories From 1947 Partition And The Birth Of ...

Religious violence exploded as Hindus and Sikhs fled toward India, and Muslims toward Pakistan, the newly created homeland for South Asia's ...

Why Pakistan and India remain in denial 70 years on from partition

On 3 June 1947, only six weeks before British India was carved up, a group of eight men sat around a table in New Delhi and agreed to partition ...

Childhood Friends Separated By India-Pakistan Partition Reunite In ...

The Indo-Pak Partition in 1947 continues to haunt people on both sides of the border. Millions of people were killed and displaced and many ...

Potent Memories From a Divided India - The New York Times

The partition, which carved up British India roughly along religious and political lines, uprooted over 10 million people. Hindus and Sikhs ...

Mystery, Mayhem, and Trauma: A Reading List for India's 1947 ...

Partition was civil war. It was a demand for a separate homeland for minorities in light of Hindu majority power. It was also a failure of ...

Was the partition of India necessary? If it was a single country today ...

TL,DR: Partition had become all but inevitable by 1947. The last few chances to avoid it has been largely missed by then. Partition was a correct choice (a ...

The Partition of India - YouTube

The Need for Peace between India and Pakistan A lecture by Prof.

How the 1947 Partition of India Affected Future Generations - VICE

The Partition of British India took place in 1947, ending over 89 years under the British Raj (1848 to 1947), dividing the subcontinent into ...

The horrors of partition: How the British left a legacy of unrest which ...

Around 14th August 1947, united India was cruelly divided, partitioning the once spiritual divine all-embracing land into 3 parts- India, West ...

Why Did the Partition of India Happen? - History Hit

The Partition of India in 1947 is one of the great forgotten tragedies of the 20th century. It occurred when India became independent from ...

1947 Partition and Delhi - Zikr-e-Dilli

While the trauma and legacy of Partition continue to haunt even today, the memories of Delhi before 1947 give hope for a possibility of living ...

The Contemporary Challenges of the Partition of the Indian Sub ...

When the British colonial rule ended in 1947, the Indian sub-continent emerged as two dissimilar nations, majority-Hindu India and majority- ...

Getting to the why of British India's bloody Partition - Harvard Gazette

The birth of Hindu-led India and Muslim-ruled Pakistan in 1947 from what had been British India was horrifically violent, the start of a ...

'People were buried alive': On I-Day, a 90-year-old shares the still ...

On August 13, 1947, he left Lahore and reached Nawanshahr, a small town in Punjab (India's side), on August 15 right in time to witness the ...