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What was the Partition of India in 1947?
Seventy-five days to draw a border, fourteen million displaced, up to two million dead — the largest migration in human history.
Last updated: October 2026
The Partition of 1947 divided British India into the independent states of India and Pakistan, triggering the largest mass migration in human history — some 14 million people displaced — and communal violence that killed between several hundred thousand and two million. Nearly eighty years later, it remains the subcontinent’s defining trauma.
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