My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 (2017)

Episode Overview

Binita Kane journeys to Bangladesh to uncover the events that led her Hindu father, Bim, to escape his childhood village. Meanwhile, Mandy Duke heads to Calcutta, a site of brutal violence during the partition, to reveal the remarkable tale of her grandfather, Arthur Wise, who captured the turmoil on film. Additionally, Asad Ali Syed and his grandson Sameer, both British Muslims of Pakistani descent, travel to Ambala in India to find the home where Asad was born, before his family was compelled to flee to Pakistan.