Quit India Campaign

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.

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.

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.

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.

This search includes publicly accessible records on Partition found in the British National Archives.

This exhibit from the British National Archives focuses on narratives of Partition from four Panjabi men.