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7 unusual facts about Partition of India


Asghar Qadir

After the partition of India, Qadir's family migrated to Lahore, West Pakistan, where they were settled in a house provided by the Government of Pakistan.

Ian Ousby

Born in Marlborough, Wiltshire to an army officer and his wife, Ousby's father was stabbed to death in India in 1947 during the Partition, leaving his mother to raise him.

Max Olivier-Lacamp

Max Olivier, also known as Max-Olivier Lacamp, was a reporter for Le Figaro and reported on the Partition of India, in 1947.

Muslim National Guard

In the Punjab, the Muslim National Guard had the strongest base in Amritsar, having a strength of 8,000 at the time of the Partition.

Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens

He served from 1947 to 1948 as chairman of the tribunal set up to arbitrate between Indian judges disagreeing over the concept and substance of the Partition of India which had been announced by Lord Mountbatten and was being detailed by Sir Cyril Radcliffe's two boundary commission (one for Bengal, one for present-day Pakistan).

Ratodero Taluka

Indo-Pak partition,the city has a special reputation for its sweet products.

Soleja

Most people with the name Soleja/Solaija have immigrated to the state of Uttar Pradesh, India and to Karachi, Pakistan during the Partition of India in 1947.


Antao D'Souza

Born and raised in Nagoa, Salcete, Goa (at the time part of Portuguese India), D'Souza's father emigrated to Karachi, Pakistan, at the time of Partition, where D'Souza attended St Patrick's High School.

Babariawad

In 1947, upon Partition of India, the Jagirdars of Babariawad, mainly Hindu Chiefs from Kathi and Rajput clans like Babaria and others, along with other principality of Mangrol declared their independence from Junagadh and accession to Union of India.

Bangladeshis in India

Before its partition, internal migration was commonplace within British India, including movement between the region which is now Bangladesh and the regions of Assam and West Bengal.

Daoud Bokhary

He briefly returned home to run a coal mine, but, fearing for his wife's safety during the partition of India, returned to Hong Kong with her and their first son soon after.

H. S. Bedi

After the partition his family was settled in Fazilka, a small township near the India-Pakistan border.

Jamilur Reza Choudhury

His father, Abid Reza Choudhury (1905-1991), was a renown civil engineer who had migrated to Dhaka in 1952 (after the Partition of India) from Rangauty, a rural area of Hailakandi (Assam, India).

Komal Gandhar

It was part of the trilogy, Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960), Komal Gandhar, and Subarnarekha (1962), all dealing with the aftermath of the Partition of India in 1947 and the refugees coping with it, though this was the most optimistic film of his oeuvre.

Lakshmi Chand Jain

During the partition of India (1947), he was put in charge of the refugee camp at Kingsway Camp in North Delhi.

Lalotra

The Lalotras were also found in Sialkot District, and these Lalotras immigrated to India at the time of the Partition of India.

Maya Kodnani

Kodnani is an ethnic Sindhi Hindu, whose family migrated from Pakistan to India during partition.

Nischal

When the Muslim country of Pakistan was created in 1947 with the partition of India, most of the Nischals living in West Punjab migrated to India.

Panchayati Hall

After Partition of India (1947), most of the Khudabadi Sindhi Swarankar families migrated from Pakistan and settled in Jaipur, India.

Rajmohan Gandhi

Most recently, Rajmohan Gandhi has also penned a book titled, Punjab (Aleph Book Company 2013), which is an unprecedented historical account of undivided Punjab, from the death of Aurangzeb to the Partition.


see also

Anti-Muslim violence in India

The roots of this violence lie in India's history, stemming from lingering resentment toward the Islamic domination of India during the Middle Ages, policies established by the country's British colonizers, the violent partition of India into a Muslim Pakistan, and a secular India with a large but minority Muslim population.

Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif

At the time of partition of India, he was a student in the Government College Hoshiarpur.

Dhatrigram

After partition of India, many skilled weavers of Dhaka came and settled in West Bengal around Shantipur in Nadia district and Ambika Kalna of Bardhaman district, both traditionally renowned centres for hand-woven fabrics.

Kandhari

After partition of India in 1947, Sikhs and Hindus migrated to India from West Punjab.

Thar Express

Before the partition of India, the Sind Mail used to travel to Ahmedabad via the Hyderabad - Mirpur Khas - Khokhrapar - Munabao - Barmer - Luni - Jodhpur - Pali - Marwar - Palanpur - Ahmedabad route.