Partition violence and population exchange
1947–1948 · Event
Mass migration and communal massacres around Partition, from the Punjab riots of March 1947 to the mass flight after independence; hundreds of thousands are killed.
On these timelines: Partition of India, India, Master
More from Partition of India
- Pakistan independence (1947)
- Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (1948)
- Nehru's 'Tryst with Destiny' (1947)
- Direct Action Day (1946)
- Radcliffe Line published (1947)
- The Indian Independence Act passes (1947)
- The Lahore Resolution demands Pakistan (1940)
- Attlee sets a deadline for leaving India (1947)
Around 1947
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)