Photos: 10 unseen vintage photos that capture the mood from the formation of India's constitution to the partition of 1947
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What followed was the formation of two countries - India and Pakistan. These vintage photos capture how people gathered to ship out for their new homes and how Muslim refugees from India stayed at refugee camps. The photos also capture the Muslims at an ancient fort in Pakistan waiting to be moved to India.
8th February 1947: Delegates leaving the Constituent Assembly's building at the Council House Library, New Delhi, after their first meeting about India's independence. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4325 - India The Last Chance - pub. 1947 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)
8th February 1947: In the Council House library, New Delhi the Nationalist party held a preliminary conference before the Constituent Assembly met to hammer out a new constitution for an independent India. Foreground right is Pandit Nehru, in the row in front of him on the left is C R Rajagopalachari a veteran fighter for independence. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4325 - India The Last Chance - pub. 1947 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)
8th February 1947: Indian statesman Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964) moves the resolution for an independent republic in a historic moment at the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4325 - India : The Last Chance - pub. 1947 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)
:February 1947: C R Rajagopalachari (left), veteran fighter for independence and Industrial Minister of the interim government, and T Prakasam (2nd from right), Premier of Madras attend a meeting of the Constituent Assembly in the Council House Library, New Delhi to decide a frame for the new constitution of independent India. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4325 - India: The Last Chance - pub. 1947 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)
December 1947: Crowd of Hindu refugees crowding dock as they prepare to ship out for new homes in Bombay. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
December 1947: Crowd of Hindu refugees crowding dock as they prepare to ship out for new homes in Bombay. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
The partition of India and Pakistan: Muslim refugees from India at a refugee camp. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Partition in India, pic: September 1947, Moslems waiting to leave for Pakistan as they seek protected transport to Dot Purana Qila, an ancient fort in Pakistan, where many refugees had gathered (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
August 28: LORD MOUNTBATTEN, viceroy of India, reading India and Pakistan's declarations of independence over the radio in New Delhi. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
