Road to Partition

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a nation splits apart? It's a question many of us are asking ourselves today. 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. 15 million people were displaced, leaving a trail of chaos and violence that in some ways has never ended. 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.

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0:00.0	What is your name?
0:04.0	What is your name?
0:06.0	My name is Abhukh Mevali, my name is Ankar Nam.
0:08.0	My name is Bihura.
0:10.0	My name is Kaji Shamsa Zaman.
0:12.0	Where were you born and how did you get the name Khan Hassanzeya?
0:16.0	I was born in Gelender.
0:18.0	And what is your date of birth?
0:20.0	My name is John Mukabi.
0:22.0	March 5, 8th of June 1932, 1928.
0:28.0	What do you think partition had the effect on people or overall Indians of continent?
0:36.0	Neither side envisaged what they were unleashing which was a terrible garbage which was totally unnecessary.
0:46.0	My heart, my fellow traveler, it has been to create again that you and I be exiled.
0:58.0	It was left with its doors on their back.
1:00.0	Go calling out in every street.
1:02.0	They came running from the inside.
1:04.0	Turn to every town.
1:06.0	They hid us there.
1:08.0	And they were crying.
1:10.0	To search for a clue of a messenger from our beloved.
1:12.0	Said the whole thing on fire and nobody could get out.
1:16.0	To ask every stranger.
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