In the summer of 1947, as India won its freedom and was partitioned, more than 10 million people were displaced - Hindus and Sikhs leaving their homes in what became Pakistan for India, and Muslims departing India for Pakistan. About a million people were killed. Muslim mobs attacked and killed Hindus and Sikhs departing Pakistan on trains and on foot; Hindu and Sikh mobs murdered Muslims leaving India. Trains travelling between India and Pakistan often arrived at their destinations filled with corpses.
1947年夏季,印度独立并被分治,一千多万人背井离乡——印度教徒和锡克教徒离开了成为巴基斯坦的地方,前往印度;穆斯林教徒则离开印度,前往巴基斯坦。约有一百万人遇害。穆斯林暴徒袭击并杀害乘坐火车以及步行离开巴基斯坦的印度教徒和锡克教徒;印度教和锡克教暴徒则谋杀离开印度的穆斯林教徒。来往印巴之间的火车往往满载尸体抵达目的地。
Intizar Hussain, the Pakistani novelist, was 24 when his family migrated during Partition. I met Hussain, now 89, in Delhi last month and asked about his experience. “I couldn't visit Delhi for 26 years after 1947. I had no idea the new countries would be so hostile and the worlds we knew would be closed to us for decades. It choked me and my inability to return home, to return to Delhi, drove my writing, he said. An invitation to a literary festival opened the doors for Hussain. For the vast majority of ordinary citizens, such journeys remained a dream, and separated parents and siblings became fading memories.
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