{"id":73092,"date":"2026-02-10T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/articles\/worlds-largest-collection-of-partition-interviews\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:52:43","slug":"worlds-largest-collection-of-partition-interviews","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/articles\/worlds-largest-collection-of-partition-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;World&#8217;s largest&#8217; collection of partition interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>Dawn<\/strong>: &nbsp;<em>August 7, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/pictures\/index_clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"Description: &mdash; AP Photo\/File\"> \n      <\/p>\n<p>A collection of accounts narrated by those who witnessed  the partition between India and Pakistan, The 1947 Partition Archive, will be  released on August 10 in collaboration with universities in Pakistan, India and  America, according to a press release received on Monday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1947partitionarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 1947 Partition Archive<\/a> is an organisation that has  compiled over 4,300 interviews of Indian and Pakistani citizens who experienced  the tumultuous event. So far, the collection was only accessible by  researchers. Now the organisation, in collaboration with universities in  Pakistan, India and America, is making parts of its archives available for the  public. The organisation is also trying to get universities in Britain and  Bangladesh on board. <\/p>\n<p>A portion of its compiled interviews will be available  from August 10 via live streaming from Stanford University Library&#8217;s Digital  Repository to anyone with an access to internet. The rest of the interviews,  those &quot;deemed too delicate or sensitive for open accessibility&quot;, will  be available to researchers and interested parties through the libraries of  universities which have collaborated. The universities include Ashoka  University, University of Delhi, and Guru Nanak Dev University in India, along  with Lahore University of Management Sciences and Habib University in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The stories are changing the way we see ourselves  and our history. We are immensely excited to be releasing this work into the  public domain, so that it is accessible to all, giving each of us an  opportunity to discover our rich history for ourselves,&rdquo; Guneeta Singh Bhalla,  Founder of The 1947 Partition Archive, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73093,"template":"","language":[],"class_list":["post-73092","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/73092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=73092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}