LibGuides: Quit India Campaign: Partition

Partition Museum
The Partition Museum comprehensively charts the Partition with a narrative arc that moves from the time before partition, proceeds to the independence movement, the early demands for separate countries, and ultimately the Partition and its consequences.
The 1947 Partition Archive Survivors and their Memories
This collection consists of a subset of more than 4000 video-based oral history interviews conducted by Citizen Historians (trained volunteer oral historians) through a crowdsourced platform devised by The 1947 Partition Archive, and a scholarship program in which recipients are selected through a competitive process and offered a stipend for recording stories for a set period of time in their native language and home region in South Asia.
Partition Testimonies: Ishtiaq Ahmed Collection
This collection features testimonies of witnesses and survivors of the Partition of India, which claimed the lives of more than a million Hindu, Muslims and Sikhs and triggered the largest forced displacement of people in recorded history.
Partiton, in pictures
Indian independence came with a hefty price: a bloody partition in which a million people were killed, and many millions were displaced from their homes. These photographs capture the tumult of 1947.
Partition in the National Archives, United Kingdom
This search includes publicly accessible records on Partition found in the British National Archives.
Panjab 1947: A heart divided, The National Archives United Kingdom
This exhibit from the British National Archives focuses on narratives of Partition from four Panjabi men.

Muslim League

Jinnah on partition
Following is the text of Mr. Jinnah’s statement opposing partition of the Punjab and Bengal:-

” I find from press reports that Congress has now started by emphasising that in the event of Pakistan and Hindustan being established, the Punjab will be partitioned, and the Hindu Mahasabha has started vigorous propaganda that Bengal should be partitioned.

” I should like to point out that there is a great deal of confusion created on purpose. The question of a division of India, as proposed by the Muslim League, is based on the fundamental fact that there are two nations- Hindus and Muslims- and the underlying principle is that we want a national home and a national state in our homelands which are predominately Muslim and compromise the six units of the Punjab, the N.W.F.P., Sind, Baluchistan, Bengal and Assam. This will give the Hindus their national home and a national state of Hindustan, which means three-fourths of British India.