Road To Partition

The NPR Politics Podcast

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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 53 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 special episode of the NPR Politics Podcast, from our friends at Throughline, 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	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Asma Khaled, I cover the White House.
0:08.8	And today we're going to do something a little different.
0:11.7	I want to bring you all a story I've been working on for a while.
0:14.9	It's a really personal one about my family, about politics, and frankly about the world
0:19.5	we all live in.
0:20.8	Our friends at NPR's History Podcast, through line, were kind enough to let me tell this
0:24.7	story.
0:25.7	And now I want to share it with you all.
0:27.6	So please take a listen and we'll be back next week to look at the year in American politics
0:32.6	and a special supersized edition of Can't Let It Go.
0:41.6	What is your name?
0:43.6	My name is Puro Nam.
0:44.6	What is your name?
0:45.6	My name is Bihara.
0:47.6	My name is Kaji Shamsa Zaman.
0:49.6	A chaser, where were you born and how did you get the name Khan Hassan Zeya?
0:54.6	I was born in Jelenda.
0:56.6	And what is your date of birth?
0:58.6	Ameer John Mugabeh Hitsilam.
1:00.6	March 5, 8th of June 1932, 1928.
1:05.6	What do you think partition had the effect on people, or overall millions of continents?
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