When I looked at this 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 unknowns about Partition is the effect it had on young children who saw the violence first hand and carried that trauma the rest of their lives.
(C) Sikh refugees in 1947. Credit Margaret Bourke-White/Time & Life Pictures via Getty Images