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Asian Network Investigates: Partition Voices

Partition Voices

14/08/2017

BBC Asian Network - Asian Network Investigates, Partition Voices

Kavita Puri speaks to those who lived through the partition of India seventy years ago.

Kavita Puri speaks to those who lived through the partition of India seventy years ago and explores the legacy which endures to this day within Britain's Asian communities.

The division of the Indian subcontinent into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan resulted in one of the largest migrations the world has ever seen. Over 10 million people sought refuge in one or other of the new countries. Unspeakable violence accompanied the displacement, claiming up to a million lives from Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities, while tens of thousands of women suffered rape and abduction. Many of those who experienced the chaos and trauma have kept their silence ever since but its legacy endures to this day within Britain's South Asian communities.

Kavita Puri hears the first-hand accounts of those who lived through the immediate aftermath of the partition of India seventy years ago.

Some of the content featured is of a graphic and disturbing nature.

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