74 Years After the India-Pakistan Partition, the Trauma Still Lingers for the Next Generation

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 05:40:30 +0000

When the Indian subcontinent split into India and Pakistan in 1947, for millions the loss of land and wealth were second only to the loss of a home and community. “The division of a major South Asian nation state into two separate ones on August 15, 1947 was as much a partitioning of minds as that of geography,” Dr. Alok Sarin and Dr. Sanjeev Jain write in their book “The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India.”