So far in my senior project, I feel good about what I have learned around the partition of India. I definitely am proud of what I discovered about the experiences of those who migrated, especially from the interviews I conducted with my great uncle who lived through it. One of my main struggles that I am dealing with is how most of the information I have found while researching is centered around politicians and public figures, rather than common people/average citizens of India. I feel confident in my knowledge around the main historical dates and influential people that contributed to this event, but I am less confident in my ability to describe what most people who were impacted by the partition were experiencing. Something my uncle told me that sticks in my mind is that most Indian people (specifically rural Indians or people who lived farther inland) were not aware that they were living in a British colony until they faced taxation or new laws. He told me that unless they had a government job or were traders on the coast, Indians didn’t often see or speak with British people. This in term made it much more difficult to have their voices heard, and as I have learned throughout my research, many of the decisions that Britian had made for India were created without ever speaking to an Indian person. I believe that the reason it is so difficult for me to find information about the Indian population is because recording them was not a priority at the time. I hope that through my research, I am able to learn more visual details in preparation for my comic book. I also want to find out as much as I can about how average people in the Indian subcontinent dealt with the partition of India, especially about their experiences migrating.