Refugees wait for water at a camp in Delhi. The partition of India put millions on the move. Columbia University/Wikimedia Commons In 1947, after years of anti-colonial resistance, Britain finally ...

It was late 2019, and I was trying to untangle the threads of my father’s rapidly fading memory. When I asked him to tell me his story, I didn’t expect him to start there. My father was born into an ...

Editor’s Note: Aanchal Malhotra is a New Delhi-based artist, oral historian and author of “Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory.” The opinions expressed in this ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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: The Indian History Congress (IHC) has sharply criticised NCERT’s new Partition Horrors Remembrance Day modules, alleging that they spread “falsehoods, with a clear communal intent” by ...

India, Jan. 9 -- Over 79 years ago, some of the most powerful leaders of India took a few decisions, powerful ones, that continued to shape our country after the ink dried on the papers. These choices ...

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.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Nisid Hajari talked about the history behind the partition of India in 1947, that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion ...