partition
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From Nana, Sadia heard beguiling stories about her grandmother’s young life in Bombay and later years in Karachi, Pakistan, where she fled after the 1947 Partition of India.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Before he turned 40, Singh, a farmer, had lived through the turbulence of both the World Wars and experienced the trauma of Partition.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
This obviously did not come to pass, and when Punjab’s territory was split between India and Pakistan in 1947, the overwhelming majority of Sikhs made the treacherous Partition journey to settle within India.
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2023
Alam deftly layers the legacies of the Partition across the novel as context for many of the choices her characters make and the constraints they face.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023
His family were once-wealthy zamindars who had migrated to Calcutta from East Bengal after Partition.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing partition
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