Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

India commemorated August 14, as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.
The partition of India into India and Pakistan led to grave violence and communal riots, loss of property, and extreme upheaval in the weeks and months around August 15, 1947. The Partition is acknowledged as one of the most violent and abrupt displacements in the recent history of the world.

Muslim League led by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who was a chief advocate for the demand for Pakistan had not been very successful in the elections it contested earlier, like in 1937.
The Muslim League moved a resolution in Lahore demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas only in 1940.
- Among those who raised the demand first was the Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal, the writer of “Saare Jahan Se Achchha Hindustan Hamara”.
Britain was in a hurry to leave India in the aftermath of World War II when its own condition was not strong. A barrister called Cyril Radcliffe was given the task of redrawing the boundaries of the two new nations, even though he had never visited India before then. The lack of planning, administrative flux, and massive communal rioting and disturbances created the horrors of Partition. As per the government’s document, about 6 million non-Muslims moved out from what became West Pakistan, and 6.5 million Muslims moved out from the Indian part of Punjab, Delhi, etc., into West Pakistan.
An estimated 2 million non-Muslims moved out of East Bengal (Pakistan) and later in 1950 another 2 million non-Muslims moved into West (India) Bengal. It is estimated that about one million Muslims moved out of West Bengal, according to the document.

The basic idea of remembering events such as the Partition, or other days that relate to a genocide or mass violence such as the Holocaust Remembrance Day, is usually to reflect and learn the lessons from them and not let them be repeated in the future; and to honour the memory of victims.

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