Ghandhiji Addressing people
The dead - Punjab, 1947
TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.
Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India
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