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35 Extremely Rare Photos From 1947 That Show The Horror Of Partition
Akarsh Mehrotra
Staff Writer
All photos have been compiled from: India TV
After gaining independence from British Raj, India was to be divided into two separate countries (India and
Pakistan). A major population exchange happened with around 25 million people relocating to their new homes
and what followed was complete chaos. A large evil loomed over the population that was shifting to a new
country once the borders were drawn. Religious riots along with acts of oppression and cruelty marked this
huge event as a dark blot on the history of the two countries.
The horror and the magnitude of suffering was unimaginable, but here are a few photos that depict the dismay
of the people who crossed borders and the horrible state it left both the countries in:
1. Millions on a journey to restart their lives
2. Family partitioned from their son
3. A room full of tears
4. A makeshift drip for a makeshift life
5. Countless bodies being buried
6. A mother lost in thought with an infant on her lap
7. Vultures feed off the dead
8. The weak carrying the weaker
9. Sidelined from life
10. Souls turn to dust as others pass by
11. A lake of blood and tears
12. Wreckage left after millions were uprooted
13. The living dead
14. Walking towards an unknown future
15. Thousands board the Uncertainty Express
16. Carrying what's left of their lives
17. The North Western Railways carries hopes of millions
18. When life gives up on you
19. Burdened with life on their shoulders
20. Making do with what they have
21. The other side of life
22. Exhaustion brought them to their knees
23. The residue of riots plague the streets
24. Journey to a new land
25. Time went on but the tracks ran out
26. An expression that perfectly describes the chaos of the partition
28. Spitting a library in 1947
29. Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru and Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947
30. Aug. 15, 1947 Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India
31. Men, women and children who died in the rioting were cremated on a mass scale. Villagers even used
oil and kerosene when wood was scarce.
32. An aged and abandoned Muslim couple and their grand children sitting by the the roadside on this
arduous journey. The old man is dying of exhaustion. The caravan has gone on, wrote Bourke-White.
.
33. Families were cut to half as men were killed leaving women to fend for themselves
34. The street was short and narrow. Lying like the garbage across the street and in its open gutters were
bodies of the dead, writes Bourke-White's biographer Vicki Goldberg of this scene.
35.