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India’s first museum on the Partition of the Indian Sub-continent
August 25 , 2017
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- After 70 years, India’s first museum on the Partition of the Indian Sub-continent will soon open in Town Hall building in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, which focuses on stories and display memorabilia of survivors.
- The museum will include newspaper clippings and donated personal items meant to tell the story of how the region’s struggle for freedom from colonial rule turned into one of its most violent episodes, as communal clashes left hundreds of thousands of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs dead and another 15 million displaced from their ancestral homes.
- The Partition split British India into India and Pakistan in 1947.
- The partition was part of the end of British rule over the Indian subcontinent.
- It was caused in part by the two-nation theory presented by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
- The main spokesperson for Partition was M.A.Jinnah. He became the first Governor- General of Pakistan.
- Millions of people moved across the new Radcliffe line between the two newly formed states.
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