With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

The two-parter follows the extraordinary events that unfolded from 1946 in the context of a rumored affair between Nehru and Mountbatten’s wife Edwina Mountbatten, along with the growing enmity ...

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 ...

British rule over the Indian subcontinent ended in 1947, resulting in the birth of an independent India and the new nation of Pakistan. The Indian state was secular and had a Hindu majority. Pakistan, ...

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.

In Jalandhar, the northwestern Indian city where Syed Sadiq Abrar was born, he was related to nearly everyone in his close-knit neighborhood: His grandmother lived next door to his great-aunt, and ...

India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades. NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan ...

For a long time, the generation that bore the brunt of the violent and acrimonious partition of India – centered on the two provinces that were actually divided, Bengal in the east and Punjab in the ...

Navtej K Purewal receives funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Eleanor Newbigin receives funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Anniversaries ...

Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 years of British rule had ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days after India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan that followed an attack by gunmen on tourists in India-controlled ...