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On August 15 1947 Pakistan and India gained their independence and colonialism came to an end in the subcontinent. But it was not a time of celebration. A botched process of partition saw unprecedented sectarian violence, an estimated death of more than a million people and some 15 million more displaced from their homes.

Mishal Husain’s family lived through the mayhem. In June 2024 Husain, the acclaimed journalist and BBC Radio 4 Today Programme host, came to Intelligence Squared to tell her family’s story and shed light on this remarkable period of history. Drawing from her new book 'Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence', she told stories like that of her grandmother Mary, a devout Catholic of AngloIndian parentage who leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse in Britain. Or her grandfather Shahid who finds purpose and success in the British Army as a Sandhurst cadet.

Husain confronted the acute sense of loss brought on by partition, the rupturing of crossborder relationships, and the scarring legacy of violence that still impacts the descendants of empire living in Britain today.

This event was presented in partnership with 4th Estate.



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