A page from "Halfway to Freedom: a Report on the New India in the Words and Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White (Simon and Schuster, 1949)
Source: ebay, June 2007
"Refugees," a photo by Margaret Bourke-White
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/south_asia_india0s_partition/html/3.stm
(downloaded Nov. 2006)
Bourke-White wrote that the migration was "a massive exercise in human misery"
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/south_asia_india0s_partition/html/10.stm
(downloaded Nov. 2006)
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Someone saved a page from the Manchester Guardian in a scrapbook; *the whole page*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2002
"An aged and abandoned Muslim couple and their grand children sitting by the the roadside on this arduous journey. 'The old man is dying of exhaustion. The caravan has gone on,' wrote Bourke-White."
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/south_asia_india0s_partition/html/4.stm
(downloaded Nov. 2006)
A news bureau photograph of Kashmiri refugees who had been driven from their homes by the turmoil of 1947; *another such view*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
The Maharani of Kashmir gives charitable help to Kashmiri refugees in Delhi, 1948; a news photo (*original caption*)
Source: ebay, Oct. 2007
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