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All these years later, nobody has chronicled the Partition like Ritwik Ghatak

30 November 2016

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scroll.in - August 15, 2016

by Rituparna Roy

India’s moment of liberation from the British was also a moment of rupture: with independence came partition on August 15, 1947. Partition did not mean quite the same thing for Punjab and Bengal – the two provinces that got divided on the eastern and western borders of India – but there was one aspect that was common to both: most ordinary citizens found it difficult to accept the fact of partition and their lives changed beyond recognition once they became refugees. [. . .]

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