Partition of India in 1947 – NZ Catholic Newspaper https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:02:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.5 Last days of Imperial India https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/06/13/last-days-imperial-india/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/06/13/last-days-imperial-india/#respond Tue, 13 Jun 2017 02:00:52 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=15203 The Partition of India in 1947 rates as one of the momentous events of the 20th century. The figures alone show the scale: 14 million displaced and one million dead from sectarian violence. It created two independent nations, India and Pakistan, from an exhausted empire that had just won World War II. Despite widespread poverty

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