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In 1947, the British Raj ended not with a single transfer of power, but with a violent partition that carved India and Pakistan out of a subcontinent and set the stage for decades of conflict. Lucas and Luna explore the final decades of colonial rule, from the 1935 Government of India Act to the 1947 Radcliffe Line, and the figures—Jinnah, Nehru, Mountbatten—who shaped the borders. They delve into the Lahore Resolution, the Calcutta killings of 1946, and the mass migrations that uprooted 15 million people. They examine the debates over secularism, the role of the Muslim League, the Sikh perspective, and the unfinished business of Kashmir. They ask: could partition have been avoided? What did the British intend? And how does partition echo today in the politics of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh? Through letters, memoirs, and survivor accounts, the show humanizes the statistics: the women abducted, the trains carrying corpses, the villages that vanished. This is not just a story of borders drawn on a map—it is a story of how freedom, for many, meant chaos and loss, and how the wounds of 1947 remain unhealed. Join Lucas and Luna for an unflinching, nuanced journey through one of the 20th century's most consequential events.
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