How did partician of india effect the people
Answers
Partition” – the division of British India into the two separate states of India and Pakistan on August 14-15, 1947 – was the “last-minute” mechanism by which the British were able to secure agreement over how independence would take place. At the time, few people understood what Partition would entail or what its results would be, and the migration on the enormous scale that followed took the vast majority of contemporaries by surprise.
Most of us just see it as a mass movement of people from one region to another. But here's the real picture of how a decision truly affected the people of both the countries of India and Pakistan.
It was on the 13th of August 1947, it was announced that the beautiful city of Lahore on the banks of river Ravi, would anymore belong to Pakistan. The partition led to a massive movement of the Hindu and the Muslim crowds to the other countries. It was told to be the largest mass movement of people apart from the world wars. People almost scared to death, began to run over each other to save their own lives. Here is an outline of what a person could have gone through at the time, as described by Mr O P Khanna, Managing trustee & Chairman of Needy Heart Foundation, who was then a small child who was a nine-year-old, who witnessed every struggle in families that wanted to simply move to a safer place.
It was the only last train that was leaving to India. So you can imagine the Hindu crowd inside the train and the crowd trying to somehow get into the last train to go to a safer place.
Mr Khanna’s father worked with the railways and had already left to work early in the morning. It was in the afternoon that they had to leave the place and there was no way other than a call from the railway office, that his family could let his father know about their situation. The family left a message at the railway office that would be sent to his father, using the then MORSE system, that was the only means for long distance communication.
The family with the pregnant mother, Khanna and his sister slowly started to walk pushing themselves through the running crowd, over the dead bodies of thousands of people and somehow managed to get a little place in the train, while people made little space because of his pregnant mother (The child was later named Raksha – meaning ‘save’ since the baby saved them from getting killed). You may never get to witness in life, a train in that way, filled with people inside, at the front, and above it.
The train began to slowly move with huge rows of army marching on both sides of the train, protecting the people. Imagine a train that should have reached the destination in 3 hours, took 15 long hours to reach the Indian border. It took 6 weeks for O P Khanna to meet his father again after the large losses of lives for days together.
Read more on Brainly.in - https://brainly.in/question/2755575#readmore