The Partition of India led to the displacement of millions of people and was marked as one of the largest mass migrations ever seen in the world. August 15, 1947 was a very significant day for Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and many others. It marked the day of the British partition of India and India gained freedom from colonial rule, ending nearly 200 years of British rule. This successful achievement of independence from colonial rule defined a narrative of religious nationalism, but also led to displacement and violence between the two nation states of India and Pakistan. A peaceful union of Muslims and Hindus had once separated, while Muslims had Pakistan and Hindus had an independent India (Best et al, 2008). “The other side of silence” (Butalia, 2000, pp.264-300) the oral testimony of a Punjabi woman Maya Rani, who was a child living in Pakistan during the partition. Her testimony was crucial to understanding the historiography of the event, because she witnessed the impact of the Partition, but was not directly involved in the violence that India's emergence and independence brought. Maya Rani comes from a lineage of Harijans who were one of the minority groups in India. The Harijans were also affected by the partition, but their involvement was limited as the conflict was mostly between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs. The interview was taken and translated by Urvashi Butalia in 1985-1986, with Peter Chappell and Satti Khanna. Maya Rani's testimony specifically addresses the events that occurred during and after the Partition and describes the panic and horrific tragedy that occurred through a personal, yet detached, perspective, and also that of a child of short stature. This... half the document... the sources cannot provide. In Maya Rani's oral narrative, there is no finger-pointing by Hindus or Muslims, but instead they are described from a third person's point of view, providing an unbiased source of information. In conclusion, Maya Rani's testimony on the partition of India provides a good overview of the fateful events that led to that disastrous decision taken by the British, and the fatal suffering of innocent civilians who were passively caught in the crossfire of communal hatred . The importance of her oral testimony to history from a gender, female, child and caste perspective is severely underestimated as the actions of a nation through her eyes (and other oral histories) are crucial to understanding emotions, reasoning and the human social logic behind it. the events that happened on the ground are not just facts, dates and statistics on a piece of paper.