Empire

16. Partition

Nov 8, 2022

54:54

Episode guests

Kavita Puri

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Impossibility of Partitioning India in Ten Weeks

01:56

Awakening Generations to Acknowledge History

01:55

Unspoken Family Histories of Violence and Atrocities During Partition

01:57

The Strike of Midnight

02:03

Introduction

3min

Partition Voices - An Interview With Kavita Puri

2min

Is It the Same in My Family?

3min

The Third Generation of British South Asians

4min

The Strike of Midnight

2min

The North and the Dred for People

2min

Is That Your Understanding as Well?

2min

Isn't That Interesting?

3min

Do You Know How Much?

3min

10.

Partition Voices, Untold British Stories

3min

11.

Do You Think You're Being Raped?

2min

12.

What Was Happening in the Punjab Frontier Force?

2min

13.

Is There a Difference Between a Sikh and a Muslim?

2min

14.

The Story of Raj Deswani

3min

15.

Is Your Land More Important Than Religion?

3min

16.

The New State of Pakistan

2min

17.

What Happens in 1971?

3min

18.

What's Going on in Delhi?

3min

19.

The History of India and Pakistan

2min

20.

The Legacy of the Third Generation

2min

21.

Sparsha Huja - A Hindi Punjabi Story

4min

The line has been drawn. India and Pakistan have been divided. Mountbatten and Radcliffe have left. But how will ordinary people caught up in this geopolitical event fare? Listen as William and Anita are joined by Kavita Puri to discuss the impact partition had on real lives.

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