Research Activities
- Humanitarian Response to Forced Migration: The 1947 Partition of India
- This Initiative is actively conducting research
This initiative examines the demographic and humanitarian impact of the 1947 Partition of India. Against the backdrop of substantial mortality and population movement, the research will examine the role of governments and voluntary agencies in carrying out the relief enterprise that was undertaken from 1946-49 in response to Partition-related violence and distress. The first phase of the study addresses the western regions of British India affected by Partition, particularly the Punjab. The second phase, asks similar questions for the eastern border, guided by the results of the demographic analysis of the region.
- Conference Chair
- Leaning, Jennifer
- Faculty Associate; Professor of the Practice of International Health, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Co-director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; and Senior Advisor, International and Policy Studies, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies
- Bose, Sugata
- Faculty Associate; Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs and Director, Graduate Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
- Russell, Sharon Stanton
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology