*WARNING: Some images contain graphic content.
1. Several people board the train to the other side of the border in search of a new life. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
2. A train leaving for Pakistan being given a warm send-off. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
3. Over 10 million people were displaced from their homeland and travelled on foot, bullock carts and trains to their promised new home. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
4. An elderly, abandoned Muslim couple and their grandchildren sit by the roadside. “The old man is dying of exhaustion. The caravan has gone on,” wrote Bourke-White. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
5. During the summer of 1947, over a million people were slaughtered on both sides in the riots. These are the bodies of the victims being picked up from a city street. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
6. Two men carry an elderly woman on a makeshift stretcher. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
7. “The street was short and narrow. Lying like the garbage across the street and in its open gutters were bodies of the dead,” writes Bourke-White’s biographer Vicki Goldberg of this scene. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
8. A young refugee sits on the walls of Purana Qila, transformed into a vast refugee camp in Delhi. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
9. Men, women and children who died in the rioting were cremated on a mass scale. Villagers even used oil and kerosene when wood was scarce. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
10. The migration was a “massive exercise in human misery,” wrote Bourke-White later. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
11. Women were left to fend for themselves after their husbands were killed in riots. PHOTO: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Slideshow has been picked up from BBC
