Road to Partition : Throughline
2 years, 1 month ago

Road to Partition : Throughline

NPR  

Road to Partition : Throughline What happens when a nation splits apart? It happened 75 years ago with Partition, when India and Pakistan became independent nations, divided by a somewhat arbitrary line that separated neighbors, families, and communities. In today's episode, NPR politics reporter Asma Khalid takes us back in time to learn how the road to Partition was paved, and to try to understand how people and nations reach a tipping point when neighbors realize it's no longer possible to live side by side. Throughline Road to Partition Road to Partition Listen · 52:24 52:24 Enlarge this image Keystone Features/Getty Images Keystone Features/Getty Images What happens when a nation splits apart?

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Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?
2 years, 5 months ago

Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?

Al Jazeera  

This animated map shows how the borders of the Indian subcontinent have evolved since the 1947 partition. Seventy-five years ago, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer, was commissioned to draw the borders that would divide British-ruled India into two new, independent nations: Hindu-majority India and mainly Muslim Pakistan. The boundary between the two nations became known as the Radcliffe Line …

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget
5 years, 5 months ago

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget

Al Jazeera  

More than 70 years ago today, the Indian subcontinent was divided by its British colonial rulers into two nation-states – India and Pakistan. In the schools that I work in Pakistan, students frequently tell me that they celebrate Pakistan’s independence from not the British Empire but “Hindu India” every August. Mourning a breakup in India As Pakistan celebrates the “making …

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