they were not just focus on the riots in the punjab. there was an uprising in kashmir. moving toward independence. these things were all happening in the same day. most accounts treat the the most simply. is a chapter in kashmir, you don't realize that when nehru woke up that morning he went to one thing about this and another meeting about that. that. he was operating on two. he was operating on two hours of sleep and then he got this letter from his girlfriend and so on. it's only once is worth the wait out that you kind of get into that fold more and understand the pressures they were under and why it would've made certain decisions. there certain decisions ginnie mae i've never seen explained for them to realize, oh, he made a decision at the end of this three-hour meeting with a talked about ask the forehead, that i can imagine -- the hardest part for me was making a narrative because you have many, many characters, huge forces at play, and it was chaos at the time. so it's hard to know what's real real, what's not to a lot of people's memories afterwards were not

there is one particular province called the punjab which is now split between india and pakistan on the western side of india. this is where the border is going to go. they decided to divide areas by hindus for a majority and do a split half-and-half. a new border is going to be drawn. the problem there is a third community known as the sikhs who were very small community, 5 million people in the middle of the province. is that it that you are sent a go in the spring of 1947 within a few months of memory, they had this vision of this vision about what happened to them that the the british drew this border and found themselves on the wrong side of the line. there were heavily militarized. that's why it spread very quickly. it is very concentrated in this area. they were pushed out in hindus and sikhs are pushed out from the other side. as you have this movement of people, 14 million people across sides of the border for the span of a few, you know come you had these miles long convoys of refugees. 250,000 people essentially defenseless. there were some soldiers trained to guard them, but