Uprooted by partition: ‘I feel I don’t belong in England. I’m a very proud Punjabi’

Impact of traumatic period' still lingers with those now based in UK - and their families - 75 years on

After living in Britain for nearly half a century, Pabitra Ghosh is still gripped by a rootlessness borne after being displaced from modern-day Bangladesh as a child.

When a communal riot broke out in 1950, Ghosh, then five, fled with his family across the newly carved Indian border from East Pakistan. The train journey was both bedlam" and traumatic" as they abandoned their home to start afresh in Kolkata.