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India's Partition: How the ending of British rule uprooted millions and hit generations that followed
But the partition of British India into the new nations by a line drawn by a civil servant on a map, triggered a series ... in exchange for their support during the war. In 1940, at around the ...
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Six things we learnt from Woman’s Hour’s Partition of India special programme
3. There is still a lot of silence around what happened to women during Partition Ritu Menon is a feminist writer and author of Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition. She started to ...
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Partition of India — remarkable stories of escape from ‘horrific violence’
India was intended to be majority-Hindu and a new state – Pakistan – was created for Muslims. The division, known as partition, saw millions of Muslims moving to live in Pakistan and millions ...