75 years after Partition: These maps show how the British split India. The hastily drawn border, known as the Radcliffe Line, attempted to carve out two nations along religious lines—but sparked ...

Sarah Ansari has previously received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to explore the impact of Independence and Partition on life in India and Pakistan. “Partition ...

A new book maps the partition of the Indian subcontinent and evocatively captures what it meant for the millions swept up in the tide of violence, migration, and the ensuing loss and confusion.

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors.

As the Partition plan is announced in the summer of 1947, millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs flee across the new border between India and Pakistan. Mass violence ensues.

A virtual reality project helps survivors of India's Partition glimpse long-lost birthplaces they fled as children. Fraught relations between India and Pakistan mean they can't visit in person.

After partition. The two countries - already bitterly divided by the Kashmir question (see below) pursued differing alliances around the world. India looked to Soviet Russia as its strategic ally, and ...

AUGUST 14, 2010 marks the sixty-third anniversary of Pakistan's inception. The birth of an independent Muslim state from the womb of an undivided, colonial India eventually became the solution to ...

Muslim empires rose and fell over the next three centuries—too many to include in a “short history”. But one merits mention. Muhammad bin Tughluq of the Tughlaq dynasty, who ruled from 1325 ...

Memory lane: An exhibit at the Partition Museum which attempts to record the stories of the displaced. 1947, 1971, 1990: It is easy, and false, to think of these heartbreaking years in isolation.

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today. As the British Empire became an unaffordable burden, planning for India's independence quickly ran into trouble ...