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The history of the partition echoed in the far berkeley

BATHINDA: Berkeley City Council in California has stated June 3 as a ‘partition of’ annual partitions’ partitions, in recognition of one of the largest mass refugee crises in the world which was opened during Indian and Pakistani independence in 1947.
Despite its historical significance, partitions as an event almost Not recognized by official government agencies globally.
June 3, 1947, was when Viceroy published his ‘Mountbatten’ plan that created Pakistan in the end in very large political reorganization after leaving the UK from South Asia in August.
Giving recognition that day was the idea of ​​’1947 partition archives’, an organization that documents the oral history of the partition community since 2011 when it appeared in Berkeley.
In a online meeting on Tuesday, Mayor Jesse Arreguin and board members, Kesarwani approved a recommendation for the Berkeley City Council to adopt the Proclamation of Remembrance Partition Day.
Although exactly half the world away, Berkeley had an old ties of century India and his independence movement at the beginning of the 20th century.
Students at the University of California in Berkeley are members of the Ghadar Party formed in 1913, who conspired with the Berlin committee in Germany to start a rebellion in the British Indian Army, a failed effort.
A decade ago starting today, the 1947 partition archive was incubated at UC Berkeley’s Skydeck Accelerator began using a unique crowdsourcing protocol to empower residents anywhere to record the history of the partition of almost forgotten before the generation of witnesses disappeared.
With almost 10,000 oral history documented in digital video a decade later, from 18 countries and more than 700 cities and villages, the archive gave new life to public memory about the partition, Guneeta Singh Bhalla said, the 1947 partition archive founder.

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