My Family, Partition and Me: India 70 Years Ago (Family History Documentary) | Real Stories

Anita Rani presents the extraordinary and emotional stories of three British families - one Muslim, one Hindu, and one British colonial - who lived in India 70 years ago, at the time of Partition. Binita Kane travels to Bangladesh to discover what happened when her Hindu father Bim had to flee his ancestral village as a young boy. Mandy Duke travels to Calcutta, scene of some of the worst partition violence, to uncover the amazing story of her grandfather Arthur Wise, who filmed there as violence broke out. And Asad Ali Syed and his grandson Sameer, two British Muslims with Pakistani heritage, the journey to the Indian town of Ambala, to search for the house where Asad was born before his family were forced to flee to Pakistan. It s like Netflix for history... Sign up to History Hit, the world s best history documentary service, at a huge discount using the code REALSTORIES ---ᐳ https://bit.ly/37Itigk Twitter: https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocs Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesChannel Instagram - @realstoriesdocs To listen to some of the best new documentary filmmakers talk on The Doc Exchange podcast, click this link: https://podfollow.com/the-doc-exchange-a-real-stories-podcast Content licensed from Warner Brothers. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com If you loved this film, Real Stories has hundreds of more full-length documentaries, click the link to enjoy: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIu