JANASENA Posted January 13, 2015 Report Posted January 13, 2015 The struggle for freedom ended on 15 August 1947 with the Indian independence. It was a proud moment as India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru delivered the famous 'Tryst with Destiny' speech. The country was now divided into India and Pakistan and people had a choice to migrate to either of the countries. These rare and vintage photos show people boarding special trains and their journey towards a new life in the newly independent nations. INDIA - JANUARY 01: Around 1947, after the founding of Western and Eastern Pakistan, a trainload of Hindus coming from Eastern Bengal, a part of Eastern Pakistan, arrives at the train station of Bongaon (Western Bengal), which marks the border between Eastern Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India. The immigrants have to present their passports to the Indian authorities. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) 9th October 1947: Hindu and Sikh women and children arriving at Bombay on the British-India liner dOwarkaf after their flight from Pakistan. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) 7th August 1947: Farewells are said as Muslims prepare to board the special train that will take them from New Delhi Station to start a new life in Pakistan. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images) 7th August 1947: One of 30 special trains leaving New Delhi Station which will take the staff of the Pakistan government to Karachi. Muslim League National Guards stand to attention in honour of the departure. 600 Delhi muslims were relocated to Pakistan following the partition. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images) 7th August 1947: Muslim women boarding a train at New Delhi in India to travel to the newly independent Pakistan. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images) Sikh carrying his wife on his shoulders as he walks with others migrating to their new homeland after the creation of Sikh and Hindu section of Punjab India due to the division of India. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) Old exhausted Muslim Indian woman sitting in a sheet w. her legs drawn up as she dangles fr. a bamboo pole supported by her brother-in-law & son as they journey w. a caravan fleeing fr. East to West Punjab to escape anti-Moslem Sikhs. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Circa 1947: Convoy of Sikhs migrating to East Punjab after the division of India. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Circa 1947: Convoy of Muslims migrating fr. the Sikh state of Faridkot after the division of India. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Circa 1947: Convoy of Sikhs carrying their belongings on their heads as they migrate to East Punjab after the division of India.
SamosaChai Posted January 13, 2015 Report Posted January 13, 2015 Papum they have travelled from own villages to nowhere.... so many members got killed, robbed, raped....this is worst time in Indian history
raj_hyd Posted January 13, 2015 Report Posted January 13, 2015 Papum they have travelled from own villages to nowhere.... so many members got killed, robbed, raped....this is worst time in Indian history yeah man..astulu vadilesi maree vellar janalu...time ekkuva iyyale appudu
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