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The 1947 partition: the untold stories

 

1947 partition was the world's largest mass human displacement.

1947 partition was the end of British rule in South Asia but also it marked the birth of India and Pakistan. the biggest movement of people In history, outside war and famine.
It was the time when two nearly independent states were created India and Pakistan
many lives were lost, and chaos unfolded during the transfer of power and the division of states along religious lines. millions of people have to flee at a moment's notice.

It was estimated around 15,000,000 people alone in 1947 became homeless, making it the world's largest human displacement in history.
millions of lives were lost, people were terrified, and many people witnessed their loved ones getting shot in front of their eyes. 
Tens of thousands of women were abducted.

1947 partition Archives

There are thousands of oral interviews were recorded in the archives of the 1947 partition. A US-based history project. their main aim is to preserve the legacies of the people from that time that was never being preserved or recorded. 
 Many of the people who witnessed the 1947 event at that time, came up with their stories and shared their never forgetting trauma, some of them were telling their stories for the first time. more than 500 people were signed in, from over 20 countries to become citizen historians and uploaded over 1000 interviews in 9 languages.

Syed Afsal Haider

 A retired judge, who was 16 at the time. He recalls the scene outside the Lahore Railway Station.

 "Nobody was on the road except for the army and the police officers. I found members of different communities, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs were stabbed, lying on the street, and the stray dogs moving among them," he said. "That was a very pitiable situation that human corpses are being treated like this by the animals." nobody knows the family of those corpses who were they, where were their families, it was a moment that I never want to remember but I wasn't able to forget.

Mr. Haider is among the first generation of Pakistani citizens with an authentic personal account of those tumultuous events. 

His detailed testimony is now a part of the 1947 Partition Archive.

syed afsal haider

Ali Shan

who was six years old at the time of partition, and currently lives in California shared his experience in an interview he said that he, his mother, and brother along with his cousin were running in fear and then he saw his cousin get shot and in the middle, his mother fell down in that chaos and they both were killed at that moment and he as 6 years old witnessed the such horrifying event. he told his story for the very first time to Guneeta Singh Bhalla, The founder of the 1947 partition archives.

Ali shan


There are so many stories and memories that still haunt the people who witnessed and lost their loved ones in front of their eyes, So today on the account of 75th Independence day lets us not forget those lives which were lost, the pain of the families whose loved ones were never got found. 

1947 partition
An estimated 2,000 were killed, and more than 4,000 injured in communal riots ahead of partition in Kolkata(Calcutta) in 1946

Amritsar saw violent clashes in march 1947 between the city's Muslims, who be part of Pakistan, and its Sikh and Hindu population, who wanted to stay in India.
Around 12 million refugees boarded the train




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