
In the 20th Century - The partition of India

In August, 1947, After three hundred years in India, the British finally left the Indian subcontinent partitioning the ancient India into two independent nation:
The Hindu-majority

India and Muslim-majority

Pakistan.

This era is also known as the era of one of the greatest migrations in entire human history. Millions of Hindus and Sikh trekked to India. whereas, Millions of Muslims travelled to West and East Pakistan. unfortunately, lacs of people never made it.

In a terrifying outbreak of sectarian violence, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims witnessed an intense carnage with massacres, arson, forced conversions, mass abductions and savage sexual violence.
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