This series is based on prepartition architecture in Pakistan. And because it’s Independence Day I think it’s important to remember partition because it’s still very much alive for our grandparents, the last generation that lived through it https://twitter.com/maariahhh_/status/1293626049218084865

PARTITION
Project title: “Divide et impera”

Divide Conquer and Rule?

In August 1947 centuries of conquest and oppression of the British Rule came to an abrupt end.

They split the states of Punjab and Bengal to create East and West pakistan.
Over one million people were

murdered and killed.
There were “blood trains” filled with passengers who had tried and failed to escape their homes having found themselves to be on the wrong side of the borders

15 million people became refugees in their own home.
People that lived together as brothers and

sisters side by side without conflict for generations.

So what changed?

People that ate the same food, shared the same language and culture were violently split apart.
Borders divided communities.
Families were torn apart.

Lines meant lives.

It was one of the deadliest

communal massacres of the 20th century.

In British versions of history they deny the role they play in the millions of deaths they caused.

They claim they wanted a united India
They said they were preventing a civil war
So how was it that generations and generations of Hindus and Muslims lived side by side in

peace until Britain colonised?

And we can’t ignore the effects it’s had for over 70 years with the conflicts and genocide of indigenous people that’s happening in Kashmir to this day