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Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

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    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Polity & Governance
  • Published
    16th Aug, 2022

Context

Recently, India commemorated August 14, as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. 

  • The commemoration was announced by the Prime Minister on this date last year.

Background

  • On August 14, Pakistan emerged as a political entity after Partition and is observed as Independence Day of Pakistan.

About Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

  • The day is observed to commemorate the “struggles and sacrifices” of millions of people who were displaced and lost their lives during Partition.
  • This day is a national Memorial Day in India. The day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during Partition of India.
  • It remembers the sufferings of Indians during partition.
  • Objective
    • The day was announced with the aim of reminding Indians of the need of removing social divisions and disharmony.
    • It seeks to further strengthen the spirit of oneness, social harmony and human empowerment.

Important facts about Partition

  • Partition was the division of British India into two independent dominions namely India and Pakistan. 
  • These two dominions have gone through further reorganisation. 
    • The Dominion of India is called the Republic of India. 

Recorded horrors of partition

  • About 2 million people were killed in the most brutal ways.
  • An estimated 1,00,000 women were kidnapped and raped.
  • More than 15 million men, women and children were displaced.
  • Loss of territory and people to the west and the east.
  • Worst of the horrors seen in Punjab and Bengal (colonial insensitivity in the thoughtless partition).
    • The Dominion of Pakistan was composed of Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh. 
  • Partition basically divided two provinces, Bengal and Punjab on the basis of district-wide non-Muslim or Muslim majorities. 
  • Partition also led to the division of the British Indian Army, Royal Indian Navy, Indian Civil Service, central treasury and railways. 
  • The partition was done in accordance with the Indian Independence Act 1947. 
    • The act also dissolved the British Raj in India. 
    • Dominions of India and Pakistan legally came into existence on 15 August 1947.

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