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Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha will join The 1947 Partition Archive.

Niamat Ali Malak, son of Khair Deen, was born at the village of Lasoi in the princely state of Patiala,...

Sushila Balkrishna Wagh, an 85-year-old survivor, was a witness to Partition. She provided personal information...

Mrs. Swarna Kanta-ji was born in Niaz Baig, near Lahore, Pakistan in the year 1942 to Shri Shyam Lal...

“God has been kind to me,” Bhagwant Singh Jawanda says, by blessing him with a loving family, lifelong...

Chimanlal Shivrambhai Ratnottar recalls that as a child his family members used to lovingly call him...

Khushi Muhammad Jut, son of Gainda Jut of the Mallan Haar Gotra, was born at the village of Aloona Tola...

Amir Narsi was born in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, on March 19, 1943 (pre-Partition) to a Shia Ismaili family,...

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