{"id":16085,"date":"2022-07-24T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=211915"},"modified":"2022-07-24T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:21:07","slug":"the-partition-of-india-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-partition-of-india-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The partition of India: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 24 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>For the latest in our <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-history-podcast-series-videos\/&quot;\">everything you wanted to know series<\/a>, historian Dr Anwesha Roy revisits the 1947 <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/historyextra.production.wcp.imdserve.com\/period\/20th-century\/bloody-road-partition-india-pakistan-gandhi-mountbatten-viceroy\/&quot;\">partition of India<\/a>, which divided British-ruled India into two independent countries. 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