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The road to India's partition

  • Written by Haimanti Roy, Associate Professor of History, University of Dayton
imagePeople fleeing on bullock carts as mass migration happened during the partition.AP Photo

As citizens of India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of their independence in August, they will also remember 1947 as the momentous year of their simultaneous birth. That year, the British quit their “jewel in the crown” and partitioned colonial...

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