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Currently, access to the stories is granted on a case-by-case basis to scholars for academic research. In 2023, the Archive started to observe June 3 as the Partition Remembrance Day because it was on this day in 1947 that the viceroy declared the Mountbatten Plan to divide India. [ 3 ]
The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India [c] into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. [3] The Union of India is today the Republic of India and the Dominion of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan , and the People's Republic of Bangladesh .
The Partition Museum is a public museum located in the town hall of Amritsar, Punjab, India. [1] The museum aims to become the central repository of stories, materials, and documents related to the post-partition riots that followed the division of British India into two independent dominions: India and Pakistan .
Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India (ISBN 978-1-107-05212-3) is an academic monograph on the Partition of India by Venkat Dhulipala, a Professor of South Asian History at University of North Carolina.
The Partition Museum is a public museum located in the Dara Shukoh Library Building at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, Kashmere Gate Campus Old Delhi, India.Much like its counterpart in Amritsar, this museum aims to bring forward the people's history preceding and succeeding the Partition of India in 1947.
During the Partition of India, violence against women occurred extensively. [1] It is estimated that during the partition between 75,000 [ 2 ] and 100,000 [ 3 ] women were kidnapped and raped. [ 4 ] The rape of women by men during this period is well documented, [ 5 ] with women sometimes also being complicit in these attacks.
Political subdivisions of the Indian Empire in 1909 with British India (pink) and the princely states (yellow) Before it gained independence in 1947, India (also called the Indian Empire) was divided into two sets of territories, one under direct British rule (British India), and the other consisting of princely states under the suzerainty of the British Crown, with control over their internal ...
India considered the accession of Junagadh invalid because it violated the principle of geographical contiguity of the partition, but Pakistan argued that the maritime border of Junagadh is connected to Pakistan by sea route. Following a breakdown of law and order, its Dewan requested India to take over the administration on 8 November 1947 ...