Sisterhood in the Storm: Women’s Solidarity and Resistance During Partition
Student researcher Deepika Rani discovers surprising findings on the experiences of women during Partition, which challenge mainstream narratives. She also makes intriguing comparisons to her own journey as an immigrant South Asian women who left home at a young age. Recently, she connected with Fahad Nahvi, our Digital Public Histories Curator, to answer some questions […]
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Junction 47 is a dynamic blog under The 1947 Partition Archive, where diverse narratives intersect, fostering a vibrant community. It serves as a hub for historians and archivists to share insights, stories, and research related to the 1947 Partition. Junction 47 not only highlights personal experiences but also delves into the broader historical, social, and […]
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Junction 47 is a dynamic blog under The 1947 Partition Archive, where diverse narratives intersect, fostering a vibrant community. It serves as a hub for historians and archivists to share insights, stories, and research related to the 1947 Partition. Junction 47 not only highlights personal experiences but also delves into the broader historical, social, and […]
Syed Babar Ali
Story: One and one don’t make two, but 11. Hence if we are together, we can be much greater than two. We, the people of South Asia, especially India and Pakistan, can be 11 if we have the right attitude towards each other. I was born in Lahore in 1926 to Syed Maratib Ali and […]
Tarlochan Singh
Story: I was born in 1933, in the village Dhudial, then in District Jhelum, (about 80 kilometres from the modern city of Islamabad), with a 5% Sikh population. Former Indian Prime Ministers, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Mr. Inder Kumar Gujral, were also from the same district. My father’s name was Sardar Balwant Singh and my […]
Ajit Jaswant Singh
Story: I was born in 1926 in Mianwali Bangla, Daska Tehsil, in the Sialkot District of West Punjab. My father, Tarlok Singh, was an accounting officer in Lahore, and my mother, Balwant Kaur, was a homemaker. I have two sisters and a brother. I completed my high school education in a government school in Lahore, […]
Patrick Nicholas Sequeire
Story: I was also called Patty and was born in 1926 on Sumsay Estate, Connoor, Mysore (now Mysuru). My family members were tea makers, and I spent my childhood in the tea and coffee estates. I never saw myself working in the tea estate. I recall the process of collecting tea leaves and sending them […]
Maryam Babar
Story: I was born in 1941 in Hyderabad to a Scottish-Indian family, and named Maryam Haqqani. I was called Munni at home by my family when I was little. My father was a powerful landlord, the cousin of Laiq Ali, the Prime Minister of Hyderabad at the time. My mother, Eva Matthew Watt, was a […]
Narinder Singh Kapany
Story: I was born in 1926 to Sardar Sunder Singh and Kundan Kaur in my mother’s village of Moga in Punjab. I grew up in Dehradun, where I attended Presbyterian School until college. In 1951 I went to England for a Ph.D. in the field of solid state physics, where I coined the term “fiber […]
Naseem Mirza Changezi
Story: I was born in 1910 in my ancestral home at Pahari Imli, near Churi Walan in Jama Masjid, Old Delhi. I was a freedom fighter and fought alongside my contemporaries, such as Bhagat Singh and Rajguru, against colonial powers. I have been profiled and documented numerous times by leading scholars and academics for my […]