The story of the partition of Indian and Pakistan was familiar to me, but it is strange that the story resonates from a Disney show about a young super hero called Ms. Marvel.
In 1947, with the British Parliament passing the Indian Indepedence Act, Lord Mountbatten announced the date, and the border was prepared at a distance by barrister Sir Radcliffe.
The previously integrated populations moved in hopes of the religious safety of a religious majority between India, and Pakistan, in the provinces of Bengal and Punjab. An estimated 1 million people died.
It reminded me of the troops leaving Afghanistan, with a vacuum that lead to violence and oppression, thanks to the longtime interference of a military power (the US instead of Britain, in this case).
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