My Family Partition and Me

I had an Aunt and Uncle - he was an officer out there. I know that they were both born in India. Presumably came home in 1947? I can remember them being exotic and exciting. She had huge difficulty settling to life in Britain especially without servants.

My DH lived in India as a five year old as his father was posted to Karachi (then India) in Nov 1945 and was involved in the hand over.. The family were there for two years, mother and children leaving just before independence, father staying on another few weeks. DH remembers it as being a very happy time and that the local indians (mostly Sikhs) were deeply upset, and fearful when they left with good reason as it turned out.

I've been watching all the programmes about partition. My Grandfather worked in India for 40years. He loved the country and its people. He predicted that partition would be disastrous. Amazingly, after partition and the British withdrawal, he was voted for by the locals in his area. He had difficulty explaining that he wasn't standing for election but he was touched that they wanted him to.

We are watching a couple of programmes on this subject. Very moving. DH was born in India, and luckily his father arranged for the whole family to return to England when DH was 7.

I remember reading about this as a teenager and the appalling loss of life. It has stuck with me ever since.

I think that Mountbatten along with Nehru have a lot to answer for in their handling of the situation.

Once again people in charge who are not up to the intellectual challenges.

Religion + colonialism = a lot of dead people.

It was a truly dreadful phase in our country's history and makes me feel ashamed.

It's only just started Nina so you can get it on iPad catchup

I was totally ignorant about partition untill I saw Viceroy, we never studied it in school, although I was aware it happened. The film of course only touched the surface of the story but that was enough for me to see the awful things that took place.
I haven't watched the series.