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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
Rawalpindi — Afghanistan goes free
8 Aug 1919 — After a month’s border war, Britain signs away control of Afghanistan’s foreign policy. Watch the parchment north-west corner of this map become sovereign — the first piece of the imperial glacis to break off.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — Amritsar — The End of Consent in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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