Posted @withregram • @guardian "In all this time, the border has never been able to erase this history, memories or emotion." The story of India’s bloody partition 75 years ago, that led to the deaths of at least one million people and the displacement of around 15 million, is a very British one. At midnight on 14/15 August 1947, the largest recorded forced migration began. Millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs were forced to journey hundreds of miles, with many experiencing brutal violence, as the Indian subcontinent was divided into two independent nation states: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Communities that had coexisted for a thousand years succumbed to an eruption of sectarian violence. And in the five years since the 70th anniversary of partition, there has been a "quiet awakening" to its hidden past among the descendants of those who lived through it, writes Kavita Puri. Swipe across to read @kavpuri's piece on why seventy-five years on, in Britain we are all the inheritors of partition and empire.