My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 - Season 1

My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 - Season 1

Season 1

Anita Rani explores the human impact of the Partition of India in 1947 through the dramatic stories of four British families, including her own.
Network
Episodes2
Datesaoût 9, 2017 - août 16, 2017

Episodes

Episode 1
Season 1Episode 160 min

Episode 1

Binita Kanetravels to Bangladesh to discover what happened when her Hindu father Bim had to flee his ancestral village as a young boy. Mandy Duke travels to Calcutta, scene of some of the worst partition violence, to uncover the amazing story of her grandfather Arthur Wise, who filmed there as violence broke out. And Asad Ali Syed and his grandson Sameer, two British Muslims with Pakistani heritage, journey to the Indian town of Ambala, to search for the house where Asad was born before his family were forced to flee to Pakistan.

août 9, 2017
Episode 2
Season 1Episode 260 min

Episode 2

Anita Rani presents the second episode of a two-part documentary series marking the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India. Anita begins her own partition journey as she and her mother Lucky become the first members of their family to return to what is now Pakistan since the Partition of India. In the Punjabi village where her Sikh grandfather's first family were slaughtered, Anita meets locals who were eyewitnesses to that terrible event. Across the border in India, Sameer Butt retraces the epic train journey across the Punjab to Pakistan which his seven-year-old Muslim grandfather Asad and his family took in 1947. Binita Kane explores how her Hindu family managed to escape the violence that engulfed their Bengali village, as well as the perils they faced as refugees.

août 16, 2017

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