Ms. Marvel True Story: What Is The Partition & Why It's So Important
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Ms. Marvel episode 4, «Seeing Red.»
Ms. Marvel episode 4 sheds further light on how Kamala's family was impacted by 1947's devastating Partition of India, a real-world historical event that is hugely important to the MCU show's story. Following her vision of a train in Ms. Marvel episode 3, Kamala (Iman Vellani) and her mother, Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff), travel to Pakistan to find out more about the vision and her mysterious bangle. After landing in Karachi and making a fashion faux-pas at the local boat club, Kamala learns more about her heritage, her great-grandmother Aisha, and her Djinn heritage.
Visiting Karachi's historic railway station for more information about the meaning of her train vision, Kamala comes face to face with the Red Dagger (Aramis Knight), who helps her discover more about the bangle's history. Kareem takes Kamala to Waleed (Farhan Akhtar), who explains the devastating consequences if the ClanDestine succeeds in returning to their home dimension. While these consequences recall the multiversal incursions in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the separation of the Djinn's home dimension and Earth-616 is also a metaphor for the Partition of India.
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In one of Ms. Marvel episode 4's best scenes, Kamala and her grandmother, Sana (Samina Ahmed), talk about Partition and its lasting effects of it on the collective psyche of the Pakistani people. In a moving conversation about identity, Sana says, "My passport is Pakistani, my roots are in India. And in between all of this, there is a border. There is a border marked with blood and pain." This refers to the Partition of India, and Ms. Marvel
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