The History Hour

Seventy-five years since India's Partition


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Max Pearson presents a compilation of stories marking 75 years since India's Partition. We'll hear the stories of people from both sides of the divide and find out about partition’s effect on the subcontinent’s diaspora.

Also, the daughter of the last British Viceroy in India, Lord Mountbatten, remembers the transfer of power in 1947.

Plus, we'll hear about the death of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and how one of India’s greatest poets known as the ‘Bard of Bengal’, Rabindranath Tagore, became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.

(Photo: Wrecked buildings after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of British India, March 1947.

Credit: Getty Images)

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