A band of only 20,000 Indian Army troops formed by the departing British to police the chaos, the soldiers found themselves trying to cover an area that had a population of 14.5 million spread over 17,932 villages and was 55 per cent Muslim, 25 per cent Hindu and 20 per cent Sikh.
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Pic - A Muslim convoy from Faridkot in 1947
Source - GETTY IMAGES
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