Modern Era · South Asia · Politics
1947
India and Pakistan gain independence
August 15, 1947
At midnight India awoke, as Nehru put it, to life and freedom, and so did the new Muslim state of Pakistan. The partition Cyril Radcliffe had drawn in six weeks triggered the largest forced migration in history. Fifteen million fled across the new border; perhaps a million died in the killings. The subcontinent was free and wounded.
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