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  2. Partition of India - Wikipedia

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    Refugees on train roof during partition. The partition was a highly controversial arrangement, and remains a cause of much tension on the Indian subcontinent today. According to American scholar Allen McGrath, [198] many British leaders including the British Viceroy, Mountbatten, were unhappy over the partition of India. [199]

  3. 1947 Amritsar train massacre - Wikipedia

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    The West Punjab Government announced other attacks that happened during the 1947 Partition of India. This included the attack of a refugee train in Kamoke carrying Sikh-Hindu passengers around 25 miles west of Lahore on Wednesday, 24 September. This attack was responsible for a further 340 deaths of both Sikhs and Hindus and wounded a further ...

  4. 1948 Gujrat train massacre - Wikipedia

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    During the partition of India, around 14–18 million people are said to have moved across the newly demarcated border between India and Pakistan in one of the largest mass migrations in history. A majority of this migration happened in the Punjab province which was divided into two, with Muslims moving to the west and Hindus and Sikhs moving ...

  5. 1947 Kamoke train massacre - Wikipedia

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    The 1947 Kamoke train massacre was an attack on a refugee train and subsequent massacre of Hindu and Sikh refugees by a Muslim mob at Kamoke, Pakistan on 24 September 1947 following the partition of India. [2] The train was carrying around 3,000-3,500 refugees from West Punjab [3] and was attacked 25 miles from Lahore by a mob of thousands of ...

  6. 1947 Rawalpindi massacres - Wikipedia

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    The massacres triggered a mass-migration of Sikhs and Hindus from the Rawalpindi Division to central and eastern Punjab, Sikh-ruled princely states, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi and the United Provinces. The descriptions of atrocities faced by these refugees provoked feelings of revenge, especially among the Sikhs.

  7. History of Muhajirs - Wikipedia

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    The photo monument depicting a couple migrating from India To Pakistan with their household stuff and cattle during Partition of India. It was the largest involuntary migration in human history, many Muslims migrating from India to Pakistan were killed by Hindus and Sikhs, many Muslims lost their families.

  8. The Real-Life Partition of India Is Vital to ‘Ms. Marvel’

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  9. Refugees in India - Wikipedia

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    Tibetan refugee self-help center in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Since its independence in 1947, India has accepted various groups of refugees from neighbouring countries, including partition refugees from former British Indian territories that now constitute Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibetan refugees that arrived in 1959, Chakma refugees from present day Bangladesh in early 1960s, other ...