"We can only understand the shape that Partition actually took by looking at the stories of the people who gave it that shape.”
Source/Credit: India West
By Sunita Sohrabji | October 9, 2017
"We will now have a chance to understand the incremental way in which history happened."
To mark the 70th anniversary of the 1947 Partition, which created modern-day India and Pakistan, Stanford University announced last month its collaboration with the 1947 Partition Archive, which will bring online 4,300 interviews and 30,000 photos and documents collected by the organization from survivors and witnesses.
As the British Raj was dismantled, borders defining the two new countries were hastily drawn along 2,800 miles. Two million people died in the ensuing chaos, as 15 million people – displaced from their homes – attempted to settle in their new countries.
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