What feelings do you have when you study this image?. Additionally, use the map in the book to create a geographical context for readers. Seek primary sources for these lesson extensions as student interest and groups allow. There are many experiences Nisha describes that can be compared to current day refugee stories. The description and the danger of travel by train are found on page 106-107 in the text. Infer from Nisha’s narrative what the refugees in this photograph may be feeling as they were waiting for the train to take them to safety. Due to safety concerns, they decided to walk more than 100 miles to the border. Nisha and her family did not end up taking the train even though at one point that was their plan. For this primary source pairing, invite students to study a photograph of a train carrying refugees during the India partition. Nisha’s description of the journey she took as a refugee to her new home is raw and emotional. The Night Diary is a first-person narrative of the 1947 partition of India which displaced 10-12 million people, including our main character Nisha and her family. Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
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