Independence Day 2024: How India and Pakistan divided money, military and an elephant amid partition

In 1947, the British Raj came to an end in India, followed by the Partition of the country into two distinct entities — India and Pakistan. What followed was the difficult and almost impossible task of splitting the various assets among the two countries. Here’s the inside track on how this nearly impossible task was achieved, which also included the tale of Joymoni, an elephant belonging to the Forest Department of colonial Bengal


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