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    Jul 16, 2017
      ·  Edited: Aug 28, 2017

    Barbed wire barricades in Peshawar

    in Photographs

    In this article I noticed an interesting anecdote that on March, 1947 the Hindu-Sikh areas of Peshawar were barricaded in their quarters and were being protected by the police.

    If you look at this picture, the street that is in the foreground has a barricade guarded by the police.




    From the original article:

    "Relations between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs was tense in the run-up to independence. By March 1947, a barbed-wire barricade separated the various religions' respective quarters of Peshawar, Pakistan, and the Sikh-Hindu minority observed a self-imposed curfew." (AP)

    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/the-birth-and-partition-of-a-nation-indias-independence-told-in-photos/261188/

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