Also read August 14 will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, says PM ModiThe horrors of Partition in 1947 witnessed the biggest blood-stained human exodus the world had ever seen. At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, India became a free nation but the country was not to remain the same anymore. Partition of IndiaThe Partition of India was on religious lines and based on the division of two provinces in the country - Bengal which was the biggest province of India and Punjab. Historians have described the 1947 Partition as the 'largest and one of the most violent political migration in human history'. Muslims from India who wanted to be a part of Pakistan left India to settle there.

Source: dna August 14, 2021 09:40 UTC