India's Partition - Part One

Witness History

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The partition of India led to millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs fleeing their homes amid horrific violence. This is the first of two programmes remembering that time. Listen to the story of Saleem, who was only five-years-old when his family tried to escape to the new Muslim country of Pakistan. This programme was first broadcast in 2010. Photo: Wrecked buildings after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of British India, March 1947 Credit: Keystone Features / Stringer

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0:00.0	The way that we interact with food, the beliefs that we have around food,
0:04.2	the emotions that food hold because food isn't just fuel,
0:07.1	it has all of these other things.
0:08.4	In short, we are going to talk about food.
0:11.4	The food chain is the podcast with a love of all things food.
0:15.6	Something that is so much part of me.
0:17.8	Each week we take a deep dive into a story centered around food,
0:22.4	adventuring to other cultures.
0:24.1	Look at the food as a kind of a global smogous board
0:27.3	on which I can choose and pick.
0:29.9	Every place has their own rituals about it.
0:32.3	Multiple identities.
0:33.7	Full of possibilities.
0:35.3	The food chain from the BBC World Service.
0:38.4	Just search for the food chain wherever you found this podcast.
0:47.7	Hello, thank you for downloading the Witness History podcast
0:51.0	from the BBC World Service.
0:53.4	This week we're bringing you programmes to mark 75 years
0:56.7	since the partition.
0:58.6	On the 15th of August 1947, British India was divided into two countries.
1:04.4	Pakistan, a new Muslim state, an independent India.
1:08.7	We begin with Saleem's story.
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