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Refugees Travelling On Foot After 1947 Partition
F.E. Chaudhry
The Citizens Archive of Pakistan
Karachi, Pakistan
Refugees on their way to their final destination. Many scores of people travelled on foot after the 1947 Partition of Indian subcontinent, leaving the country of their forefathers. The people photographed here left India for Pakistan.
This image is from the collection of F.E. Chaudhry, the only known local Pakistani photographer who captured the events at the time.
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- Title: Refugees Travelling On Foot After 1947 Partition
- Creator: F.E. Chaudhry
- Subject Keywords: 1947 Partition of Indian Subcontinent, Migration, Refugees, Punjab, Pakistan
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: Copyright © 2017 by Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP). All rights reserved. No part of this image may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including copying, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP). This image was donated by F.E. Chaudhry to CAP.
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