Picture No | 10238548 |
Date | 1947 |
Description | Bodies of murdered Muslim men, women and children at Hoshiap |
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One of the devastating results of the ensuing violence between Sikhs and Muslims following Partition of India in 1947; Muslim men, women and children lying dead in the streets after the armed mobs of Sikh Jathas had passed through the town of Hoshiarpur in East Punjab.
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Source | Photograph in The Sphere, 6 September 1947 page 298 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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