The 1947 Partition Through the Lens of Migrants

From leaving their homes to living as a refugee, these people witnessed partition of the subcontinent in the hope of a new and peaceful homeland. Here are their stories of migration.

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[TCMOriginals]

What lessons should we learn from the partition of the subcontinent?

[recurrencerelation]

In India, Hindus and Sikhs tell similar stories of brutality perpetrated on them... Innocents suffered on both sides. And no offense, but here it's believed that Muslims started it after Jinnahs direct action day instigation

[sarupghosh]

The number of Hindus who became refugees are much much more.
The comparative study of census report and a study of demographic structure in both countries will make it further clear.
24% Muslims took 26% of land and formed Pakistan.
One third of Muslims stayed back in India and if India wants their share of one third land back Pakistan will understand everything better.

[shivammudgal]

Demographics speaks a lot india have 20% muslim population whereas Pakistan has 1.5%

[uk]

About 7.25 million people migrated from each side (total of about 14.5 million). Regardless what direction the moved, almost all families have similar stories. I am descendant of migrants myself, who moved from India to Pakistan. From my mother's side my grandfather was only one who made it alive (barely), all his siblings were murdered. Same happened to his extended family/cousins, where only one or two people out of entire household made it alive. But two generations down (my generation) things are different. I live in Canada in a city which has significant Indian population, and in my university days all my roommates were from India. Two of them belonged to families who migrated from Pakistan to India. We talked about it and shared stories we heard from our grandparents. This gave us better prospective, awareness and respect for each other. We need to tell these stories to next generations, to create awareness.

[ishaqalexander]

Love from Sylhet, Bangladesh❤

After 1971, Bangladesh's govt has almost erased the history of partition and 1947. Now, not many things are thought about 1947.But I believe history can never be erased and partition was a integral part of our subcontinent's hisotry.

[anirudhhariharan]

If the first education minister of india is a muslim, what made them think "hindus will enslave muslims in undivided india?", Infact it was the congress who were campaining for kilafat in india, and jinnah called it "bigotry". When muslim league lost to congress in the 1940 elections, jinnah instilled fear on the hearts of muslims by saying "islam in danger"
This slogan got him 400+ seats in 1946 elections.

[amirahkhan]

2:50 aise halaato me bhi sikhs ne help kia .... Jinke gurudware jala diye gye mandiron ko tabahbo barbad kr diya gya fir b insaniyat zinda thi aur aaj bhi hai... Mera partition se koi b talluq nhi hai... Par me haq s kahti hu india me reh kar mujhe safe aur proud feel houta hai kyuk hmari majority logo k sir tan se juda nhi krti

[hrishikesh]

The other side also has similar stories i wish the partition wud have taken place peacefully .Really shameful for both countries so much lives were lost for no reason

[SmokeZ]

The reality of this video shows us that basically we are not all different. Regardless of which province our families and neighbours once resided we all had to make some kind of change to our lives whether they lost family friends neighbours etc to migration or the brutality of both sides. Just watching this i wonder how many of my family members are across the border who i dont even know. Everyone lost apart of their identity due to the partition.

[AmanKumar-tgvz]

Nor hindu is hindu nor muslim is muslim they may say i follow ram and prophet Mohammad but the action tells more than the word😢

[shihabtalukder]

Whatever politicians did, sufferings always happened with common people 😢 deep condolences for those people including hindu, Muslim, Sikh ..

[muditkhanna]

Because of Jinnah, Hindus suffered a lot. this partition should be depicted as black time in our history
this video is so without the point, its more than 75 years now and see India has 22% muslim population, but you cannot see a hindu politician in pakistan, so much hypocrisy is in the video.
my grandfather's brother in law's best friend was a muslim and he became the very person who poisoned him.
India is secular, pakistan is not. so if you want to blame anyone for partition and deaths, blame every pakistan who praise the partition.

[Gru]

We grew up on same types of stories on our end as well .. we are products of partition as well ... people did bad shit ... May we all find our PEACE

[MalihaMansoor-jo]

I see my late mother here....telling me all these things with tears in her eyes....💔

[abhishekkohli]

le liya tumne pakistan…kya mila leke tumko pakistan….one of the biggest blunder of modern day history 😢

[jannatrizwan]

I still remember my grandmother told us story of war she told us that the rivers were full of blood she escaped from jamu Kashmir to Punjab here at that time she was only 18 years old with her parents and her brothers used to be warriors to protect Muslims and also themselves I really miss her a lot may her soul rest in peace 💓💓

[SandeepKulshrestha]

Both sides killed each other. Please don’t blame only Hindus.

[hammad]

Tears in eyes and goosebumps....
Shukar Alhamdulilaha!
Each and every moment... because we cannot even think what they were been into.

[notorious]

All efforts were due to an "Independent Muslim Land" thanks to Our brave eldors, who sacrifice everything four
Pak ka matlab kia "لاالہ الااللہ"