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Partition's Ghosts The Missing Muslim Families of Delhi — Fexingo History
May 11, 2026 ·
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Partition's Ghosts The Missing Muslim Families of Delhi — Fexingo History
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When we think of Partition, we imagine Punjab and Bengal — the great migrations, the Radcliffe Line. But what about the Muslims who stayed behind in Delhi? In this episode,...
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When we think of Partition, we imagine Punjab and Bengal — the great migrations, the Radcliffe Line. But what about the Muslims who stayed behind in Delhi? In this episode, Lucas tells Luna the story of the city's Muslim neighborhoods — Shahjahanabad, Nizamuddin, Hauz Qazi — where families who had lived for centuries suddenly found themselves strangers in their own homes. We explore the communal violence that swept through Delhi in 1947, the forced evacuations to Purana Qila and Humayun's Tomb refugee camps, and the slow erasure of a once-vibrant Muslim middle class. Lucas introduces listeners to figures like Zakir Husain, the future president who worked to keep Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia open, and the poet Sahir Ludhianvi, who wrote elegies for a city that had lost its soul. We also touch on the Abducted Persons Recovery Operation, which tore women from their new families. This is a quieter, more intimate story of Partition — not of borders, but of homes that became haunted.
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#Partition #Delhi #MuslimsDelhi #Shahjahanabad #1947 #ZakirHusain #SahirLudhianvi #PuranaQila #HumayunsTomb #JamiaMillia #AbductedPersons #Refugees #CommunalViolence #IndiaHistory #PakistanHistory #SouthAsia #FexingoHistory #History #PartitionOfIndia #RadcliffeLine
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