The two prominent figures who played a vital role in India's partition are Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This podcast highlights the partition of India from the point of view of these two leaders.
India's partition is one of the world's most controversial topics in the history of freedom movements. The partition of India was an event that resulted in the division of the British Indian Empire into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. It was a result of the Indian Independence Movement, which aimed the end British rule in the Indian subcontinent. The All-India Muslim League and the Indian National Congress led the movement which was accompanied by civil unrest and sectarian violence across the subcontinent. The partition created the new states of the Dominion of Pakistan (later the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later the Republic of India). The partition involved the division of three provinces, Assam, Bengal, and Punjab, based on district-wide Hindu or Muslim majorities. The boundary demarcating India and Pakistan came to be known as the Radcliffe Line.
About Amit Majmudar: Amit Majmudar is a novelist, poet, translator, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist. Majmudar’s latest books are The Map & The Scissors, Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary (Knopf/Penguin Random House India, 2018), and the mythological novel Sitayana (Penguin Random House India, 2019). His fourth poetry collection is forthcoming in the United States, What He Did in Solitary (Knopf, 2020). His novel Partitions (Holt/Metropolitan, 2011) was shortlisted for the HWA/Goldsboro Crown Prize for Historical Fiction and was named Best Debut Fiction of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews, and his second novel, The Abundance (Holt/Metropolitan, 2013), was selected for the Choose to Read Ohio Program.
The Awaara Musaafir Show is a podcast hosted by Jayesh Gangan, popularly known as Awaara Musaafir on the internet. It is a podcast that focuses on Indian Culture, Army, Geopolitics & History. We have had guests from various backgrounds who have come to the show and talked about a plethora of topics. Our goal with this podcast is to educate Indians the right way & bring the real India in front of the world. We believe in Nation First policy.
