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The Last Days of British Rule in India
In the summer of 1947 India declared independence after hundreds of years of British rule. English-born Anne Wright had moved there when she was a child. She speaks to Witness about life in the last days of British India.
Photo: Anne Wright (left) with her sister, at home in India.