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.
The Partition of British India occurred in August 1947 when the British government withdrew from India after almost two hundred years of British rule.…
I was commissioned by the National Archives UK to create a series of illustrations responding to refugee stories for Refugee Week 2020 – the whole process moved me, as it made me think of how it must’ve been for my family during Partition.
“The aim of this year’s programme is to share information about the reality of the refugee experience. The Partition of British India, which led to one of the largest mass migrations in history, contains countless stories and is a fitting way to speak to this experience.…
