Photo Series

Sikh refugees Seems late August or September.

Barefoot walking on the dusty plains of Punjab. Margaret Bourke-White 1947 Link: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/mass-migration-india/mgFC2Axc_siewg

Credits: Avina Kohli, article in Scroll.in titled "Partition’s ghosts: Stories of the evacuee whose property became my family home". Link below. https://scroll.in/article/970333/partitions-ghosts-stories-of-the-evacuee-whose-property-became-my-family-home Writer Avina Kohli has written a beautif

Title: Trains, used to transport refugees across the border, were packed to capacity Creator: The Railway Gazette “Refugee Travel between India and Pakistan”, 24 October 1947 (From the personal collection of Deborah Nixon) Date Created: 1947-10-24 Reference: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/

12 March 1947: Three wounded Indian policemen receive treatment following riots in Lahore, when Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims clashed over the decision to incorporate the region of Punjab into the state of Pakistan Keystone/Getty Images Link: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/partition-70th-anniversary-violent

Ambala Cantt railway station in East Punjab. Muslim refugees on train moving out of India. Also view the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pag5eJ0dtaY

Click on the reference post below. https://www.punjabpartition.com/single-post/witnessing-partition-through-ai

Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan in makeshift camps in eastern Punjab.

Sikh and Hindu refugees arriving on ships at Bombay Port, 1947. Also refer to this article for more details on how these refugees arrived from Karachi, https://www.gatewayhouse.in/bombay-karachi-linked/

Wreckage of carts & belongings of refugees who had been camped there before the Beas River flooded over, during mass migration because of religious conflicts. Link: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/mass-migration-india/PwEwRZnMaJCFvw Details • Title: Mass Migration, India • Date: 1947-

Homeless Refugees at Tihar village, in Delhi during 1950. Reference: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/27-painful-pictures-of-partition-which-killed-a-million-people-and-forced-10-million-to-flee-across-border-for-safety-372784.html

Refugee Women learning how to spin yarn, 1947 (Courtesy the Partition Museum): The government of India undertook to train unaccompanied refugee women and girls in tasks that would make them capable of becoming self-reliant citizens. In this poster, such a programme is underway, under the anxious g

An old photograph of a refugee camp at Humayun’s tomb.

23 August 1947: A Muslim man smiles onboard a train departing from New Delhi to Pakistan Keystone/Getty Images. Link: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/partition-70th-anniversary-violent-birth-independent-india-pakistan-1634500

Article: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/NgLipa3cEYX3Lg

An armoured car of the Wiltshire Regiment leaving City Police headquarters on a peace-keeping patrol after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, March 1947. The first train to be attacked was in Amritsar on 6th of March, 1947, when a Muslim mob stopped a train coming from Pathankot in the suburb of

Wrecked buildings after communal riots in Amritsar in 1947 - (c) Keystone Features

Street of Lahore, 1946 Muslim woman walking on the street of Lahore Man carrying a box, Lahore 1946 People coming out of a Museum Gurdwara Dera Sahib, Lahore 1946 More images can be found by searching "Bourke White Lahore 1946"

Reference: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/27-painful-pictures-of-partition-which-killed-a-million-people-and-forced-10-million-to-flee-across-border-for-safety-372784.html This photograph is of west Punjab refugees in Kingsway Camp, Delhi, 1953

Sikhs migrating to India

Linesmen repairing phone lines after the riots in March, 1947. (C) Getty Images

The screenshot is from the Ludhiana area as the distance from this area is about 158 kilometers from Lahore. The video which shows this particular scene also has a shot of Ambala Cantt railway station. This means that the people shown in this video are Muslims headed towards Pakistan. Another point

In her memoir, Anis Kidwai describes the Purana Qila refugee camp in Delhi: "From the hospital, one had a vantage view of the entire camp. As far as the eye could see, tents and tin-roofed shelters were crowded together. In their midst was a ceaseless traffic of naked children, disheveled women, ba

August and September saw heavy rains in Punjab.