Refugee Women learning how to spin yarn, 1947 (Courtesy the Partition Museum): The government of India undertook to train unaccompanied refugee women and girls in tasks that would make them capable of becoming self-reliant citizens. In this poster, such a programme is underway, under the anxious gaze of Nehru. Most such projects failed. Some camps for these women, seen by the state as ‘permanent liabilities’, are still in existence in India. Reference: https://www.cam.ac.uk/files/a-tryst-with-destiny/index.html

Title: Trains, used to transport refugees across the border, were packed to capacity Creator: The Railway Gazette “Refugee Travel between India and Pakistan”, 24 October 1947 (From the personal collection of Deborah Nixon) Date Created: 1947-10-24 Reference: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/_/1AEnLVcyVu3UXg