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14/08/22 06:05 AM IST

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

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  • India is commemorating August 14, as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. The commemoration was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this date last year.
  • August 14 also marks Independence Day in Pakistan. India was partitioned into India and Pakistan on August 14, 1947.
About Remembrance Day 
  • Britain wanted to leave India as soon as possible after World War II because its own condition was deteriorating. Earlier, governor-general Lord Mountbatten supposed to make India independent by June 1948. But he decided to advance the date.
  • Cyril Radcliffe was appointed to redraw the boundaries of India and Pakistan. He had never been to India before.
  • Thus, boundaries of new nations were created in a hurry that lacked planning.
  • It ultimately led to “horrors of Partition” due to administrative flux, and massive communal riots.
  • This event had resulted into displacement of 10 to 20 million people and death of around 2 million people.
  • To commemorate this, Indian government decided to observe “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” on the line on “Holocaust Remembrance Day”.
  • The objective of observing such days is to reflect and learn lessons from them in a bid to avoid any such events in future. It also seeks to honour the memory of victims.
Source- PIB 

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