Seventy-one years ago, a line drawn between India and Pakistan ushered in a bloody separation that left lasting scars on both sides of the border. Upon independence from the British Empire, the two states were demarcated along religious boundaries that proved much less clear than administrators anticipated. An effort is now underway to preserve this past while those who experienced it are still alive, so that future generations may better understand how their borderlands became so volatile. The Radcliffe Line came into effect at midnight on Aug.
How The Memory Of India’s Traumatic Partition Is Being Preserved Across Borders
Kamakshi Ayyar and Abhishyant Kidangoor, Time: World
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 9:03pm
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