A temporary sanctuary for Delhi's hard pressed Muslims
A scene at the Jami Masjid Mosque where several hundreds of refugees, after fleeing from their burning homes, were accommodated until refugee camps were ready to receive them. All Muslims in the Delhi area were in acute panic, the news of Muslim-wrought atrocities in the West Punjab having inflamed Hindu opinion in the capital. One of the results of the widespread violence following Partition and the creation of modern India and Pakistan
Picture No
10238549
Media ID
46005528
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3150px x 4934px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Sphere, 27 September 1947 page 397
Date
1947
