Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A refugee family that fled to Pakistan after the Partition of British India. Keystone-France ...

Border Security Force personnel patrolling along the barbed wire fence at India-Pakistan border during Independence Day celebrations at RS Pura Sector in Jammu Kashmir on August 14, 2021. Credit - ...

The neighbors have been in conflict over the disputed border region since their independence and partition in 1947.

Sam Dalrymple’s narrative history on the shattering of South Asia, in which individuals, their actions, and their circumstances take center stage, is fresh and readable ...

After finishing the ugly job assigned to him, Cyril Radcliffe burned all his papers, refused his handsome fee of 40,000 rupees and fled the subcontinent. He had just separated the new Muslim state of ...

A literary event at Delhi University discussed the 1947 Partition of India, analyzing its socio-political impacts and ...

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...

NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.

Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain's partition plan with Hindu and Muslim leaders in the summer of 1947. AP Photo/Max Desfor For both nations, independence almost immediately ...

During the partition of India in 1947, brothers Sadiq and Sikka Khan found themselves living in separate countries. A viral video captures the moment the brothers were reunited after 74 years apart.