INDIA 1947 Revisited

PARTITION OF INDIA & PAKISTAN PICTURES

Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946
Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947



The dead - Punjab, 1947

Ghandhiji Addressing people
TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.
1971: Indira Gandhi reviews the troops, in the context of military and diplomatic preparations for the Bangladesh War.




Direct Action Day: Calcutta, Aug.16, 1946.


1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta.

1948: Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral procession.



A Library being divided at the time of partition. My heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to hold hands.


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