(i) The Partition led to the largest, most-abrupt, unplanned and tragic transfer of population that human history has known. Large number of people were killed in the name of religion. Lahore, Amritsar and Kolkata were divided in ‘communal zones’.

(ii) Minorities on both sides of the border fled their home and often secured shelter in ‘refugee camps’.

(iii) Thousands of women were abducted on both sides and were made to convert to the religion of the abductor and were forced into marriage.

(iv) The Partition led to division of properties, liabilities and assets, administrative apparatus and financial assets and things like tables-chairs and musical instrument of police band.

(v) The employees of the government and the railways were also divided.

(vi) It led to a violent separation of communities who had hitherto lived together as neighbours.