nowadays marks the 70th anniversary of India’s independence. In the November 3,1947 issue, LIFE ran a photo essay by Margaret Bourke-White illustrating the massive migration that accompanied India’s independence and partition - THE GREAT MIGRATION: Five Million Indians Flee For Their Lives. This image ran in the photo essay with the following caption: “distress of the dispossessed is reflected in the face of this Moslem boy, or perched on the wall of the Purana Qila fortress in unusual Delhi. Below him thousands of his uncomfortable fellows,who gain fled their homes in terror, are trying to survive until they can organize a convoy for the long march to Pakistan. In their squalid city of tents and lean-tos they gain almost no room to sleep and small to eat. They are surrounded by filth and many will die without ever leaving camp. Read more about this and see unpublished contact sheets from the essay on LIFE.com. (Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE #India #Migration
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