Abstract
The human dimension of the 1947 catastrophe has been the subject of
numerous works on the Partition of India. Both states do not let the ghosts of
partition, as some consider a ‘holocaust’, rest in peace or let their countrymen lose
sight of the trauma even after more than six decades of independence. The
haunting memories loom large and lurk behind any attempt to salvage efforts at
securing the peace of the region. But then the half a million casualties and the
migration of 12 million across borders in an otherwise peacetime milieu is a hard
to overlook phenomena and remains even to the present times, one of the greatest
migrations ever recorded
