Untold Stories of the Pains of Partition
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When India gained Independence on August 15, 1947, it was also divided into two dominions
The two dominions - India and Pakistan - were formed on the basis of Hindu and Muslim population in the respective districts.
The India-Pakistan partition is regarded as one of the "largest" and "most violent" political migration in human history.
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Hitherto, the thousands of Indians who had migrated to Britain in the wake of the partition of the sub-continent had lived in silence, perhaps wanting to bury the ghosts of the past as they sought to make a new life. Two years ago, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Kavita Puri produced a three-part series, Partition Voices, for BBC Radio 4 that won the Royal Historical Society’s Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize. She has now converted this into a similarly-titled book “to remember the time before separation so the next generations understand that there were Hindus in Lahore and Muslims in Amritsar”.
“Hindus who tied rakhis on the wrist of their Muslim brothers, and Muslims who brought laddoos to their Hindu friends to celebrate Diwali. Friends and strangers who transcended hatred to commit acts of kindness and humanity during the worst of times. It cannot just be the stories of hate and violence which are passed down. Even though every story told to me was shattering. I felt hopeful. Hopeful that people wanted these stories of compassion to be recognised, and that the visceral pull of the place of your birth, and that of your ancestors – the love of your land
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