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    Photographs

    A collection of photographs depicting the mass migration.

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    Sikh Refugees in relief camps

    When I looked at the picture I noticed the little girl standing at the back of the room. Her face tells a lot about the pain of forced migration and of the uncertain future that lies in front of her. One of the great unknown about the partition is the affect it had on young children who saw violence
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    Jul 15, 2017
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    Refugees moving to Pakistan

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

    Credits: Avina Kohli, article in Scroll.in titled "Partition’s ghosts: Stories of the evacuee whose property became my family home". Link below. Writer Avina Kohli has written a beautiful article about her family's migration from west Punjab to Kharu Khera, Ambala.
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    Jan 25, 2021
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    Refugees going to Pakistan

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    May 30, 2020
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    Packed to capacity

    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/asse
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    May 26, 2019
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    Lahore, March 1947

    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-
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    Jan 07, 2019
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    Muslim refugees moving out of India

    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
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    Nov 11, 2018
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    Education camps for refugee girls in Pakistan

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    Oct 11, 2018
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    Registration of Refugees from West Punjab

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    Oct 11, 2018
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    Photo Series: Refugees arriving in Lahore

    Series of photographs showing the arrival of refugees into Lahore from India. The trains are completely packed with people and household items that could fit in the compartments or on the rooftops. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfkHdttQSYM
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    Aug 19, 2018
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    Muslim refugees in Purana Qila - Delhi

    "During the the Partition of India, Muslim refugees, evacuated from areas of unrest in New Delhi, line up for water with any type of container at Purana Qila, the old fort, in New Delhi, India, on September 17, 1947. This is the only water tap within the camp, where it takes anywhere from one to thr
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    Wreckage after Beas floods

    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: 1947-10 Locatio
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    West Punjab Refugees near Delhi

    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
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    May 30, 2020
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    Nehru at Women's Rehabilitation camp

    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 ga
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    Dec 29, 2019
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    Humayun's Tomb - Muslim refugee camp, Delhi

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    Muslim man headed to Pakistan

    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
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    Jan 07, 2019
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    Migration

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    Women During Partition

    Article: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/NgLipa3cEYX3Lg
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    Oct 11, 2018
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    Survivors of Thoha Khalsa, Rawalpindi

    Hindu and Sikh survivors of the whole scale massacre of non-Muslims in the Rawalpindi district in March of 1947. Lady Mountbatten visiting the camps that were setup in Rawalpindi after the killings. Other posts on this can be referenced here: https://www.punjabpartition.com/forum/photographs/refugee
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    Sep 15, 2018
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    Separated from their parents or orphaned

    Muslim children at a refugee camp set up near Karachi.
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    Jul 21, 2018
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    Amritsar, 1947

    Wrecked buildings after communal riots in Amritsar in 1947 - (c) Keystone Features
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    Lahore in 1946

    More images can be found by searching "Bourke White Lahore 1946"
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    West Punjab refugees in Kingsway Camp, Delhi, 1953

    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
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    May 30, 2020
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    Sikhs migrating to India - 1947

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    Jul 07, 2019
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    Amritsar, March 1947

    Linesmen repairing phone lines after the riots in March, 1947. (C) Getty Images
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    Jan 26, 2019