- A team of volunteers based out of University of California in Berkeley have collected stories of South Asia’s 1947 violent partition.
- These stories are from the greatest migrations that gave birth to two nations — India and Pakistan.
- The team uses a web-based “croud sourcing” to record the history and ‘cround funding‘ to track the archives of the past.
- Guneeta Singh Bhalla has pioneered this project to witnesses of the traumatic events of partition are mostly in their 80s and 90s.
- 1947PartitionArchive.org is the site to visit for video and audio testimonies, and a story map showing where each person’s story originates.
- 1947 Partition Archive collected $35,000 (Rs 21 lakh) through a crowd funding campaign to equip itself for the task of documenting the witness accounts
- 1947PartitionArchive preserves information of those people from their pre-partition life and culture,post-partition migrations and changes in the ethnic, religious and economic communities of their lives.
Exams Perspective:
- 1947 Partition
- India Pakistan Bilateral Relations
- Crowd Sourcing