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    The 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan resulted in the largest forced migration in recorded history, displacing tens of millions of people along religious lines overnight and creating sectarian violence and a massive refugee crisis, with at least a million people estimated to have perished. More than 72 years later, Partition remains a lived experience for many across the subcontinent and political relations between India and Pakistan remain hostile, plagued by the legacy of Partition and subsequent wars between the two countries.

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    The 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan resulted in the largest forced migration in recorded history, displacing tens of millions of people along religious lines overnight and creating sectarian violence and a massive refugee crisis, with at least a million people estimated to have perished. More than 72 years later, Partition remains a lived experience for many across the subcontinent and political relations between India and Pakistan remain hostile, plagued by the legacy of Partition and subsequent wars between the two countries.

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    ABOUT PARTITION

    The 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan was the largest


    forced migration in recorded history.

    In August 1947, British India became independent from the colonial


    empire – and divided itself into the two states of India and Pakistan.
    East Pakistan later became Bangladesh in 1971.

    Overnight, tens of millions of people were displaced across religious


    lines, creating ripples of mass sectarian violence and an
    overwhelming refugee crisis. Historians estimate that at least a
    million people perished in the process, and many more were subject
    to horrors such as massacres, forced conversions and sexual
    violence, especially in the Punjab and Bengal.

    More than 72 years later, Partition continues to be a lived


    experience for many people across the subcontinent. The political
    relations between India and Pakistan remain hostile, plagued by the
    legacy of Partition and the four wars that followed it.

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