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DRAWING FROM PARTITION – NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK

NATIONAL ARCHIVES PARTITION DOC, PiNS Artist

I was recently commissioned by National Archives UK to create some illustrations in response to an oral testimony from someone whose family was displaced in 1946 due to growing tensions in British India.

DEHRADUN VALLEY, PiNS©2022, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK copy
Dehra Dun Valley by PINS © Bhupinder Singh, 2022 / Pinspired by Iqbal’s aunt’s testimony.

The Partition of British India occurred in August 1947 when the British government withdrew from India after almost two hundred years of British rule.…

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