India Pakistan Partition

History Talk, the history podcast from Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Written by Mytheli Sreenivas. Narration by Nicholas Breyfogle. 2017 marked the 70th anniversary of two nations, India and Pakistan. Their independence from the British Empire in 1947 prompted a wave of decolonization that spread across Asia and Africa. Yet alongside the victories of independence came the tragedies of partition, whereby British-ruled India was divided into two separate, independent states. An in-text version of this article can be found at:https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/milestones/december-2017-india-pakistan-partition