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

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. Writer Avina Kohli has written a beautiful article about her family's migration from west Punjab to Kharu Khera, Ambala.

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

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

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

"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

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

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 ga

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

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

Muslim children at a refugee camp set up near Karachi.

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

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

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