'Can't Part With Partition Memories,' Say Migrants of Independence | Independence Day
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- The partition of India into two unsurmountable parts marks one of the most defining moments in the nation’s chequered history. It was at the very “stroke of the midnight hour” on 15 August 1974 , that India became free from centuries of British dominance.
But in their maiden flight to liberty, both India and Pakistan lost over 2 million people in riots that ensued their independence. Even more were displaced, as India and Pakistan came to symbolise the land of Hindus and Muslims respectively.
Fearing death and humiliation at the hands of the ‘other’, many Hindus in Pakistan moved to or attempted to move across the border to India, while Muslims in India made a dash for Pakistan. Travelling in packed trains and buses, Many were killed on their way, few made it to their intended destinations.
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I am a Pakistani, I agree with the statement that the partition was a big miserable story. The leaders from both sides had no control over the aftermaths. A terrible, terrible human tragedy. Both countries are taken over by mindless and heartless extremists!
My mother's family migrated from Punjab, and father's family from Bihar to Pakistan. They were forced to migrate from their ancestral homes, no one wishes to leave their homes where their ancestors have lived for so long.
It was bhagalpur in Bihar
@@AsifAli-yq2bv Bhagalpur in Bihar
There is no doubt that Britishers created the situation bywhich india were moving towards balkanization of this land into small pieces and this wasn't a conspiracy of some days/month/years,But it was the set of many british policies by which they ruled us for centuries. The foundation of division had been started from 1857.muslim league and hindu mahasabha types of organizations were the results of britishers far sighted policies of divide and rule.
After britishers, i find Mr jinnah as a major character who made partition possible. He was adamant to create Pakistan on the basis of religion.
@@AsifAli-yq2bv No one forced me to leave as I was not born yet when it happened, but my paternal grandparents left when the 1946 riots in Bihar happened.
@@maryamsukaynah559 I am originally from Patna. When I was young I asked my grandfather why we didn't we go to Pakistan and his answer was 'this my ancestral home and love of the country'. But now the current situation in India for Muslim is alarming. As long as BJP/RSS stay in power I don't see situation getting better for them.
Partition was meant to divide us Politically, for fear of oppression, but it did extra, It divided us socially, it gave us misery, India and Pakistan are nothing short of brothers against each other's throats for land
If only someone had a time machine....sigh.
Girls marry hin for this statement, which is really the biggest if and but
I will kill jinnah if time machine was present
@@Muhaffiz_E_Namoos_ i think two nation theory on paper is good but implementation is wrong if partition not happen, then we be like nigeria(hindu and muslim percentage equal ) a ungovernable state and failed one .
@@Muhaffiz_E_Namoos_ He is your ancestor muslim ☪️️
I would have stopped Jahangir to allow europeans to trade with India
All of this happened because some people of a specific religion wanted a separate country.
seedhe bol bro ISLam IS reason why Bharath lost PAK, BANGLADESH, aFGHANISTAN , eVEN MYANMAAR DUE TO ROHINGYA TRIBES
@@deshbhakt460 Myanmar was not a part of India. Neither was Afghanistan but that was a part of the Mughal empire.
@@srijeetasikder2678 gaand mara, Mughal ke pass tha lekin bharath kaa nahi bhai kon sa Logic hai ye, DRUGS thoda kam le bsdk
1947 Exodus was biggest migration in human history.
Bloodiest also
My parents where both born in Jrmmu and fled hindu mobs as children with their families as they were forced to flee into Azad Kashmir! My mother tells stories of hiding in fields with her mother (may Allah grant her janat al fardos) telling her to be quiet as sword bearing mobs went by! . Sadly the dream of Kashmir becoming free for them to return to their land has died with so many. Its so sad.
Its amazing how much I’m effected by partition, i was born in the UK yet my heart longs to be able to go back, god willing.
Was partition necessary ... i say this with years of thought, yes, Muslims do not get a fair shout in current day India. However the deaths of even one person on either side was not, that was a direct consequence of the way British rule ended and decisions that they made at the time.
Peace to all humanity,
Your share of Kashmir is PoK. Indian Kashmiris have rights. Soon, all Pak will be ours, like 1947. Fancy that. LAMBU LAHORIA 'DESI KHATREE'
Nitin Kataria just to clarify .... you Dirty Rat.
There is no such thing as PoK .. there is Azad Kashmir and Hindu Occupied Kashmir. Full stop. Ask the people who live there. Freedom for Kashmir. End to Hindu tyranny
@@nitinkataria2382 keep dreaming bastard
@@khurramali007 1971 93000? Inshallah boys surrendered well 😂😂😂
@@zurdddtk3025 what about your surrendered in Ladakh bastard.hahaha
"Why has pakistan been created" this statement got tears in my eyes.
Traitor indian Muslims divided india in 1947 but many stayed back in india to divide india again in future
British are responsible for all these..
If Germany reunite then why we can't ?
Let's hope. We will reunite again..
India never got independent...
We are still dealing with the consequences of hate and instability...
😭
Hopefully one day India and Pakistan gets reunited...
Love from India
It's a true fact that Pakistan should have never come to existence no matter how bad the riots and fights between the Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. It would still be one country and we would have ruled the world.
Yes one country where minorities would be persecuted. The partition was inevitable due to such riots in the past.
@@ZainabZehra786 If by minority you muslims , then please beware no sensible person takes this comment seriously
@@killerpro6982 says you
@@ZainabZehra786 Muslim were made minority by the division. In a n undivided India Muslims were greater in number than most big nations in the world. It was a very sad and unlogical turn of events created by both Hindu and Muslim leaders.
@@maryamsukaynah559 in the Subcontinent, 80% of the population consisted of Hindus. MUSLIMS WERE THE LARGEST MINORITY OF THE TIME.
India should have had a complete population exchange of Muslims to west and East Pakistan. Half the problems India has now wouldn’t exist if India participated in a proper population exchange of Muslims, as a Pakistani, partition was necessary, but not the violence on Hindu and Sikh refugees (and Muslims of the East Punjab and surrounding areas) of United Punjab and to a smaller extent, Hindu partition victims of Bengal.
I personally think migration was unnecessary on both sides, people should have stayed where they were though I agree partition of India was inevitable at that time.!
as a hindu and indian i agree with you two nation theory is good on paper but not good at implementation and we should exchange our population but pakistan is not in place of taking half of indian muslim the country gonna collapse
@Storm I saw a sensible comment from a muslim first time🙂
Shut up. This partition was bcoz jinnah wanted to become a leader. Bcoz he feared nehru would be in power only. All the punjabi and sindhi muslims of pakistan are descendants of hindus. Moreover our culture is same; we are all indo-aryans, we speak common languages like punjabi,sindhi, and look same.
Jinnah and his allies seized in the oppurtunity to deepen hindu-muslim divide. Then after that came the hindu mahasabha.
If INA commanded by Netaji won today then this partition wouldnt have happened.
@storm6151but we don't need you we have given youa country in 1947 go there you traitors
respect for all togarther 🥸🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹♥️
I live in Karachi. I am 32 years old. My grandfather came to Karachi from Dehli in 1952. Karachi is the best urban area of Pakistan. - We are called Urdu speakers here - We have the best job and business opportunities here because the locals like Punjabi, Sindhi, Pathan and Baloch are illiterate and ignorant so Urdu speakers get the upper hand here. Yes - this movie is actually made on us - thank God my grandfather made the right decision and came to Pakistan - here we have the best and luxurious house to live in, there is a best car to drive, there are great opportunities for education, I myself Has done MBA - My father has two private schools and we are providing education - by the grace of God the locals who live here are oppressed and respect us and are afraid of us because we are in the majority in Karachi - I don't know What about our Muslim brothers who are left behind in the province of UP ? What are there political, economical and social issues now?
Your story is not the story of the majority. The good life you have is founded upon the terrible tragedy of 2 million dead and a lot more driven out of their homes. Your nice home, jobs and cars are not worth it. May the people come together and live humainly and peacefully together.
Traitor indian Muslims divided india in 1947 but many stayed back in india to divide india again in future
Don't worry your Muslims brothers are now 220 million plus here waiting to create another Pakistan
Bro well done like for Pakistan
It makes me cry and look what know we have done to our country we have leave this country for ruthless and brutal politician
Thanks Great Britain
Yeah thanks to traitor Nehru and Gandhi who fooled hindus but napunsak hindus didn't get a seperate country
India never got free, it was handed from one imperialist, Britain to another i.e. Congress (Nehru family precisely), Nehru for very self centered and rash whereas Jinnah was egoistic and had lack of vision
Totally agree
Jinnah was a blessing for us. If it wasn't for him, we would have been living in extreme misery in india
@@ZainabZehra786 My dear even Mr. Jinnah was repentful of his partition decision very soon after the decision. It was the largest human migration in history and being fair I not only grieve for Muslims migrants or left behinds but also for sikhs and hindus who had to part with their memories and possessions.
@@falchester He was not repentful of the partition rather he was extremely disappointed and heartbroken over the fact that people from all communities had begun to attack each other instead of simply moving into which ever land they wanted to live in. Partition was inevitable but the atrocious way it took place is something that everyone condemned. There was too much unnecessary loss of life. The migration turned into a mass genocide campaign, something that should never have happened.
@@ZainabZehra786 but then all this was the real representation of this land's indigenous ppl isnt it.
So all my qafirs chiristians , ✝️ Jews 🌟 hindus , bhuddhists ,sikhs always stay united against enemy 🙄 remember cognizance of enmity more important than friends.
Great work ambarsar shreefpura ki thi my father family before 1947 mera koi nhi mila
Always Muslim survivors thanks to these persons who save them. But very few Hindu's do that. I'm from Bangladesh. I met many Muslims their ancestors come from India, They never forget to mention people who help them. But when i saw any Hindu from india talk about these days, Most of them never say any good words. These things proves why our ancestors have to make Pakistan.
You Muslims got yours own countries breaking india but the sikhs,Christians, Jews, Buddhist, hindus got nothing
For us Raos( muhajirs) it was very difficult to leave our homeland
What homeland ?
The partition was needed cause if it did not happen, riots would continue and Islam would have had no freedom, but it should have been more carried out and planned. It was the leaders faults for everything and for all the killings
Muslims who have suffered the most jagirdar lost there proerties muslims where forced to migrate in pakistan
Muslims lost their state there properties their loved ones
Pakistan kiyon banaya ? Jin bad bakht siyasat dano nay India kay hindu muslim ko taqsim karwaya Allah Taala unhain kabhi muaf nahi karain gay.
Ghabraye maat الله soon leyginge
Power geo poltics india could have been connected to Europe that time ussr bordered Afghanistan Pakistan
Traitor indian Muslims divided india in 1947 but many stayed back in india to divide india again in future
e hind ka hadis
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