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Nov 2022
20m 11s

Episode 7.12 India's Wars

Paul Kendrick
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In 1947 India was to gain its independence but it had to broken up into two nations, India and Pakistan known as Partition.  In the run up to this the India was to witness an outbreak of murder, rape and the following out from their homes of millions of people.  A biography of the first leader of Pakistan, Muhammad Jinnah is given.

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