A Muslim League National Guard helps a muslim family fill their water containers before their train to Pakistan leaves Delhi station.
A special train takes 600 Muslims from New Delhi to the new Muslim republic of Pakistan, 7th August 1947. A railway official checks several crates of government documents before departure
A view towards the Golden Temple (Sri Harmandir Sahib), the holiest shrine of Sikhism, after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of British India, March 1947
A wrecked potter's shop 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),
Afghan traders leaving Amritsar, Punjab, with all their belongings, after communal violence in the city during the Partition of British India, March 1947
An elderly Muslim on board a train departing from New Delhi Station, when 600 Delhi Muslims where transported from the soil of Hindustan to the promised land of Pakista
An Indian girl, one of the many thousands of Muslims heading for the Indian free state of Pakistan. Carries a goat as the refugees proceed on the road to freedom.
British Army In Amritsar
Burned-out and ruined buildings in the Katra Jaimal Singh area of Amritsar after communal violence in the city during the Partition of British India, Punjab, March 1947.
Lord Mountbatten Talking With Indian Leaders 1947-1948
Men of the First Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment leaving City Police headquarters on a peace-keeping patrol after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of British India, March 1947. F
Muslim refugees having fled India after the partitioning of the country in 1947 at a shantytown in Karachi, Pakistan around 1947-1948
One of the greatest mass transfers of population in the history of the world has been going on since the recent creation of the two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Partition Riots In Amritsar
Photograph depicting the Frontier Demonstration in Peshawar. Dated 1947
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.
The burned-out Hall Bazaar shopping street after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of British India, March 1947
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
This photo was made at the railroad station of Amritsar, border city of India, after a refugee train arrived from Pakistan--the Moslem state
Three wounded Indian policemen receiving treatment following the riots in Lahore, when Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims clashed over the decision to incorporate the western region of Punjab into the state of Pakistan
Wrecked buildings after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of British India, March 1947. F
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