By STAFF Writer
August 15, 2011
In the Vintage Newspaper section today we are revisiting India and Pakistan independence in 1947. Below are just few of the chosen newspapers' extracts that covered the news of India and Pakistan independence, partition of India and Pakistan, and riots started on the eve of independence.
This is how India is divided. The white spaces are the princely states, which either adhere to British rule or are being governed by their maharajahs as independent states...
Three hundred Communist mill workers rushed the platform at Chowpathy Sea Face Sunday while a monster crowd was holding an independence day meeting, pulled down the independence flag and sought to hoist the red flag in its place...
Communism, is not, and never has been a serious menace in the United States, but the Indian movement for independence, is a serious menace to the British empire.
That movement has reached a point where it will certainly cost the loss of an untold amount of property, if not an untold number of lives...
August 15, 2011
In the Vintage Newspaper section today we are revisiting India and Pakistan independence in 1947. Below are just few of the chosen newspapers' extracts that covered the news of India and Pakistan independence, partition of India and Pakistan, and riots started on the eve of independence.
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| The Windsor Daily Star - August 14, 1947 (Click on image to view full size) |
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| The Border Cities Star - January 27, 1930 (Click on image to view full size) |
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| The Pittsburg Press - January 28, 1930 (Click on image to view full size) |
Communism, is not, and never has been a serious menace in the United States, but the Indian movement for independence, is a serious menace to the British empire.
That movement has reached a point where it will certainly cost the loss of an untold amount of property, if not an untold number of lives...
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| Manila Standard - August 15, 1997 (Click on image to view full size) |
Cultural fiestas, marches by people who fought for India's independence, singing and dancing were to herald India's golden jubilee celebrations of freedom from the British.
But the celebrations beginning Thursday evening and continuing on independence day Friday were likely to be muted. Pride at the accomplishments of the last five decades is mixed with despair that India faces so many problems, from poverty to political corruption to ethnic, class and religious tensions...
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| Youngstown Vindicator - August 13, 1947 (Click on image to view full size) |
Religious riots breaking out on the eve of Indian independence have killed at least 57 persons and started large fires burning throughout the city of Lahore. The Indian News agency reported today.
The report said 63 other persons were injured during the clashes between Moslems and Hindus. All schools were closed. Thousands of persons remained in their homes for safety...
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| The Day - August 15, 1947 (Click on image to view full size) |
What ought to be for the populace of India a day of entire rejoicing seems to be proving to be a manifestation of bloodshed and renewed strife. After more than two centuries of British rule, India now enjoys its freedom and independence. The great sub-continent is being divided into separate Indian and Pakistan states whose destinies will be in their own hands for weal or for woe in days to come. At the moment the northern province of the Punjab is experiencing one of the bloodiest orgies of violence and communal rioting in its long and checkered career...
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| The Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 1947 (Click on image to view full size) |
The two new British Dominions of India and Pakistan come into being at mid-night to-night.
In Karachi, capital of Pakistan, the Moslem Dominion, the retiring Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, paid tribute to those Indian leaders who had helped arrive at a peaceful solution for a transfer of power. He read to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly a message of greetings and good wishes from the King. To-morrow, Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India...
In Karachi, capital of Pakistan, the Moslem Dominion, the retiring Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, paid tribute to those Indian leaders who had helped arrive at a peaceful solution for a transfer of power. He read to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly a message of greetings and good wishes from the King. To-morrow, Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India...
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