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The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India [b] ... who had visited India four years before. ... We have 75 to 80 percent of India, which we can ...
The 1947 Partition Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit oral history organization in Berkeley, California, and a registered trust in Delhi, India, that collects, preserves, and shares first-hand accounts of the Partition of India in 1947. [1]
Those stories were not in Singh Bhalla's school text books, so she decided to create an online history - The 1947 Partition Archive https://www.1947partitionarchive.org, which contains about ...
In August 2016, as part of an international conference commemorating 70 years of Partition at the Indian Museum in Kolkata, funded by The New Zealand India Research Institute (NZIRI) and The Ministry of Culture, Government of India, which was co-convened by Roy alongside historian Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Dr Jayanta Sengupta, this project was ...
CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab looks at how the trauma of partition – otherwise known as the division of India into two independent countries – still affects South Asians ...
In the previous year, India had launched its first commercial space rocket, carrying an Italian satellite. [109] A view of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel with smoke during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In November 2008, Mumbai attacks took place. India blamed militants from Pakistan for the attacks and announced a "pause" in the ongoing peace process. [109]
The riots also lead to the Congress and Sikh leaders of the Punjab demanding its partition. [70] On 8 March, the Congress Working Committee passed a resolution to partition the Punjab. [71] [72] Survivors identified attackers by their names, occupations and home villages in FIRs after the massacres. [73]
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 ...