A Muslim League National Guard helps a Muslim family fill their water containers before their train to Pakistan leaves Delhi station. Special trains are to take 600 Delhi Muslims for relocation to Pakistan following the partition. Original Publication: Picture Post - pub. 1947 (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)
circa 1935: A signed portrait of Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948), leader of the Indian National Congress. He campaigned for tolerance and social reform and an end to discrimination against the so-called untouchable caste. He was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in the violence that followed the partition of British India into India and Pakistan. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
Social History, Partition in India, pic: September 1947, Moslems waiting to leave for Pakistan as they seek protected transport to Dot Purana Qila, an ancient fort in Pakistan, where many refugees had gathered (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
INDIA - OCTOBER 03: Two Muslim Indians carrying black pennants and demonstrating against the partition of India and Pakistan on June 5, 1947, as the debate had been officially ratified. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
INDIA - CIRCA 1947: Lord Mountbatten, Then Viceroy Of India (Seated, Left) Listening To An Indian Leader From The Village Of Kahuta Complain About Recent Riots Between August 1947 And June 1948. At This Time, Lord Louis Mountbatten Had The Delicate Task Of Gaining Acceptance For The Partition Of The British Dominion Into Two States, India And Pakistan. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
PESHAWAR, INDIA - 1919/01/01: A convoy of British soldiers in armored cars pass by a barricaded police station. "The Disturbances. Peshawar -1919."
The driver of a special train leaving New Delhi Station to relocate six hundred Muslim residents of Delhi to Pakistan following the partition of India, August 1947. (Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Refugees with their remaining belongings at the Golden Temple (Sri Harmandir Sahib), the holiest shrine of Sikhism, in Amritsar, Punjab, after communal riots during the Partition of British India, March 1947. Fighting took place between the city's Muslim population (around 50 percent), anxious for Amritsar to be incorporated into Pakistan, and the other, Sikh and Hindu, half of the inhabitants, who supported incorporation with India. Refugees, including Muslims, were given shelter at the Temple during the fighting. (Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The burned-out Hall Bazaar shopping street after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of British India, March 1947. Fighting took place between the city's Muslim population (around 50 percent), anxious for Amritsar to be incorporated into Pakistan, and the other, Sikh and Hindu, half of the inhabitants, who supported incorporation with India. (Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
This photo taken in August 1947 shows Indian soldiers walking through the debris of a building in the Chowk Bijli Wala area of Amristar during unrest following the Partition of India and Pakistan. - In August 1947 the British Raj was dismantled, creating a newly independent India, with chunks of its western and eastern regions hurriedly amputated to create Pakistan. Partition etched a deep fissure in the region and threw millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs on the road to their new homeland. Six thousand kilometers of new borders were drawn in just five weeks, fifteen million people were uprooted -- and possibly as many as two million lives were lost in the chaos and ensuing violence. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)
India's boycott of British cloth: Followers of Gandhi burn goods from Bradford and Manchester. Seventeen years later, Mahatma Gandhi, the man who had lead a campaign of non-violent resistance to British rule for decades and who became widely credited with securing India's independence, finally saw his goal realized. British rule, which had lasted for 163 years, ended at the stroke of midnight on August 14, 1947. But initial jubilant scenes across the country quickly turned to horror. Thousands died as battles erupted between Muslims and Hindus in the two new countries of India and Pakistan, created through the partition of the religiously-divided sub-continent. See PA story SOCIAL India. AVAILABLE BLACK & WHITE ONLY. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)
Migrant families
The Lahore Gate at the Fort in Delhi, The 'Lahore Gate', the main entrance to the 'Lal Qila' or 'Red Fort', is the largest monument in old Delhi. Surrounded by a dry moat, the fort was built between 1639 and 1648 and is typical of Moghul style and grandeur. The gate faces towards Lahore (now part of Pakistan), hence its name, India, 1880. (Photo by Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)
A religious building and its reflection on a lake, Image possibly taken in India/Pakistan c.1860-1880, India / Pakistan, 1860. (Photo by Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)
Politician attempting to calm a crowd of demonstrators on the eve of partition, Lahore Pakistan August 1947. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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