India-Pak Partition: The Biggest Mass Migration In Human History
Over half a million people were killed in hostile clashes in both India and Pakistan after Cyril Radcliffe drew the lines on the map to divide British India. The religious exodus was the biggest mass migration in human history.
In 1942, in a fiery speech in Mumbai, Mahatma Gandhi gave a 'do or die' call to the people of India in a final push to make the British quit. Following the start of Quit India Movement, many Congress leaders including Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel were jailed for sedition along with Mahatma Gandhi.
"At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India will awake to light and freedom," was famously said by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, to the country's constituent assembly and millions of radio listeners on the eve of India's independence in August 1947.
Lord Mountbatten was the last India's viceroy and was the architect behind the partition of India and Pakistan. He was the last British representative before India's Independence Act was passed and the power was shifted.