The Partition of India – Part 4: Unholy Rush

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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As Partition finally becomes reality in August 1947, the new boundary sparks a mass migration in the Punjab and Bengal. Atrocity and ethnic cleansing soon follow. The Sikhs, a long-ignored but well-armed religious minority, mobilize to stake their claim. Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru plunge into the fray, desperate to assuage a refugee crisis in the city of Delhi. Sources: Akbar, M.J. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. 2011. Tharoor, Shashi. Nehru: The Invention of India. 2003. Tharoor, Shashi. Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India. 2017. Khan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. 2007. Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World. 2018. Sarila, Narendra Singh. The Shadow of the Great Game. 2005. Charles Rivers Editors. The Punjab. 2018. Charles Rivers Editors. British India. 2017. Puri, Kavita. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories. 2019. Malhotra, Aanchal. Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects From A Continent Divided. 2017. Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Indian Summer. 2007. Zakaria, Anam. The Footprints of Partition. 2015. Ahmed Akbar. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity. 1997. Urvashi, Butalia. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. 1998. White-Spunner, Barney. Partition. 2017. Lawrence, James. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. 1997. Hamdani, Yasser Latif. Jinnah: A Life. 2020. Fischer, Louis. Gandhi. 1950. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.5	Hello and welcome to Conflicted, the history podcast where we talk about the struggles that
0:53.3	shaped us, the tough questions
0:55.0	that they pose, and why we should care about any of it. Conflicted is a member of the Evergreen
1:00.3	podcast network. And as always, I'm your host, Zach Cornwell. You are listening to Part 4 of a
1:07.0	multi-part series on the Partition of India. As you may have guessed by now, this is a long
1:12.4	series. In fact, it'll probably end up being the longest one I've ever done. Up until now,
1:17.5	that distinction belonged to our four-part exploration of the Soviet-Afghan War. But this partition
1:22.9	series will have one, maybe two more installments. The end is certainly near, but there's a lot more
1:28.8	story left to tell. After all, this is just one of those topics that if you're going to do it,
1:33.2	you've got to take the time to do it right. But as always, before we jump into the next chapter
1:37.6	of the story, let's take a moment to recap what happened last time. And I'll do my best to keep
1:42.3	it brief, because we have quite a bit of ground
1:44.3	to cover today. In part three, a trist with destiny, we chronicled the turbulent spring and
1:50.3	summer months that preceded the partition of August 15, 1947. It began with the British Prime
1:56.9	Minister Clement Atle's decision to officially grant independence to the Indian subcontinent,
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