NCERT has revised its Class 8 Social Science book to state that Mahatma Gandhi and Congress accepted the 1947 Partition as ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rishabh R. Jain, the Associated Press A worker sorts through photographs, newspaper clippings and other material that will cover the walls at the Partition ...

Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...

The haunting effect of partition is illuminated on the big screen in director Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House. Set in 1947 as Britain ended its colonial rule of India and separated the country into ...

Reporting from Amritsar, India — Amolak Swani’s knobby fingers gripped a cane as she shuffled into the room, her daughter holding her at the elbow. She settled into a chair with a sigh and began ...

Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard her grandmother describe how she crossed into newly-independent India from Pakistan in 1947 with her young children, ...

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.

Describing the partition of India a “historical mistake”, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday (October 16) said that the country should never have been divided. Owaisi said that India was ...

NEW YORK, March 25, 2010 - "The partition of India in 1947 was the most traumatic event of the 20th century," said Jaswant Singh, an Indian politician and parliament member. "It continues to live in ...