
Writers Explore the Long Shadow of Partition in South Asia
The first time I learned about the Partition, it must have been through school textbooks. But they didn’t delve into the mass displacement, violence and trauma caused by one of the largest forced migrations and tragedies of the 20th century, which occurred when British India was divided into India and Pakistan in 1947 as the countries gained independence from colonial rule. Over 14 million people migrated and over a million were killed in the communal riots that engulfed the region. It was perha...