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Jamila Azam: Childhood memories of partition

India and Pakistan won independence in August 1947. The largest mass migration in human history of some 10 million took place. As many as one million civilians died in the accompanying riots.

Jamila Azam from Stoke-on-Trent was a little girl in India at the time. Her family who were Muslim, decided to stay in India unlike many who decided to start again in the newly formed Pakistan.

In this extract she speaks to Ajmal Hussain about growing up in post partition India...

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