Meena's family is from a region in India known as Punjab.
During parition, Punjab was split between India and Pakistan, and as a result the violence resulting from partition was especially terrible there.
Some say that up between 200,000 and 2,000,000 people were killed trying to cross over the borders to reach their new countries.
Virtually no Muslim survived in East Punjab (except in Malerkotla) and virtually no Hindu or Sikh survived in West Punjab.
The British Nationality Act of 1948 made it easier for citizens of the Commonwealth countries to live and work in Britain and resulted in an influx of immigration from Africa and Asia.

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