partition

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From Nana, Sadia heard beguiling stories about her grandmother’s young life in Bombay and later years in Karachi, Pakistan, where she fled after the 1947 Partition of India.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Before he turned 40, Singh, a farmer, had lived through the turbulence of both the World Wars and experienced the trauma of Partition.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

This obviously did not come to pass, and when Punjab’s territory was split between India and Pakistan in 1947, the overwhelming majority of Sikhs made the treacherous Partition journey to settle within India.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2023

“There’s no judgment of it,” adds Kapur, an Indian director who was born in Lahore shortly before the Partition.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023

Both my father and my grandmother believed that Jagu’s and Rajesh’s mental illnesses had been precipitated—even caused, perhaps—by the apocalypse of Partition, its political trauma sublimated into their psychic trauma.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee