The motion that “This House Regrets the Partition of India” has been carried by the Oxford Union Society by 108 votes to 76.
The debate took place nearly three years after Shashi Tharoor’s sensational speech in May 2015 in support of the motion that “This House believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies”.
This time both sides expressed sorrow at the horrors that accompanied the Partition of India.