This week, India and Pakistan will celebrate 60 years of independence from Britain.
Offering an eyewitness account of the tumultuous partition of the sub-continent is Bernard Dineen, a Briton who served as a young captain in the Punjab Boundary Force that was charged with the impossible task of keeping order.
Dineen talks with Debbie Elliott.
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