Hello and welcome to Conflicted, the history podcast where we talk about the struggles that shaped us,

the tough questions that they pose, and why we should care about any of it. Conflicted is a member of

the Evergreen Podcast Network. And as always, I'm your host, Zach Cornwell. You are listening to

part five of a multi-part series on the partition of India. Now, if you're still

with me at this point, I just want to take a second and say thank you. I know that this has been an

uncharacteristically long series, and I appreciate your patience as we take the time to explore

all the nooks and crannies of this topic. But if you're starting to get a little partition fatigue, I totally understand.

And don't worry, after we've concluded this series, we'll return to the typical conflicted format.

The two-parters, the one-parters, that kind of stuff.

As they say, sometimes less is more.

And very soon we will leave India, and maybe even the 20th century behind, in search of other

interesting and unexpected topics. But with all that said, let's turn our attention back to the

subject at hand. In the previous episode, Unholy Rush, we experienced partition through the eyes

of the people who lived it. The people who suffered unimaginable violence

and fled for their lives towards hazy, uncertain futures. We cobbled together a mosaic of

first-hand accounts, and through that cracked and splintered lens, we began to get a glimpse of what

it might have been like to live through this thing. We met Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, and Parsis.

We met victims of violence and the perpetrators of it, gang leaders and gundas, refugees,

and relief workers.

But we also stayed tightly tethered to our core cast of characters.

In particular, the Lady Edwina Mountbatten and Javaharlal Nairru. In the capital of Delhi, Edwina and Nehru risked their lives, day after day trying to curb the violence.

Nehru, unable to administer the problems into submission, ran into the streets and confronted the violent mobs with little more than a hot temper and a stiff upper lip.

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