India and Pakistan: Partition 70 years on
70 years ago tonight two hundred years of British colonial rule in India came to an end in August 1947. The country was partitioned into two independent nation states: the Hindu-majority India and the Muslim-majority Pakistan. The result led to one of the largest mass migrations in history with both communities succumbing to sectarian violence with hundreds of thousands killed and tens of thousands of women abducted on both sides. Our South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt looks at the country's relationship with Britain and what India thinks of the UK. Mihir Bose, born in India 1947 and author of "from Midnight to Glorious Morning? and Ahmed Rashid, born in Pakistan 1948, and a best selling foreign policy author of several books on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia discuss the Partition 70 years on. (Image: Justin Rowlatt and his great-grandfather, credit: BBC)