Studies of the partition are divided between a focus on ‘high politics’ and ‘voices from below’. Drawing on Margaret Bourke-White’s The Great Migration: Five Million Indians Flee for Their Lives (1947), which documented the partition through photographs, allows us to draw out the narratives which compose modern Indian history. The division of British India into the two independent national states of India and Pakistan left deep scars in the region, yet often this is overlooked with a focus placed on celebrating independence.
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