Introduction
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” –Jawaharlal Nehru, 14 th August, 2947 Little did he know then, that the optimism and hope of that night would turn into distress as the harsh reality of handling one of the largest migrations in history and the following communal violence set in. The Partition of British India saw the division of a mighty country into the two dominions of India and Pakistan. The dichotomy left in its wake the largest human migration of the twentieth century with the transfer of over twelve million people along religious lines, creating an overwhelming refugee crisis and resulting in large-scale violence, with esti...
