Partition of India, Delhi and communal violence
Introduction The day of 14th August 1947 was a day of victory and defeat for India, on one hand India got freedom from the British rule while partition as a defeat for Indian communal and cultural unity on the other. With the creation of Pakistan, the struggle which earlier the two countries share unitedly got divided and the violence which emerged after the partition due to communal differences led to massacre on such a large scale which many scholars compare with the Serbs in Bosnia, the Albanians in Serbia and Jews, Gypsies and others in Nazi Germany as the author Gyanendra Pandey mentions in his book ‘Remembering Partition’. Delhi being the capital also suffered the violence and many people came to Delhi to flee the communal tensions; majorly from the Punjab province of that time, but lakhs of people left the place as well due to riots and most of them were Muslims, around 3.3 lakh muslims left Delhi at that time and after 1947 violence Delhi lost its place or character as t...