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 ...

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.

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.

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.

How India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed. The process of partition was not simple. In addition to the British-controlled territories, the subcontinent also consisted of many other ...

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 ...

"There can be no question of coercing any large areas in which one community has a majority to live against their will under a government in which another community has a majority. And the only ...

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.

Through the eyes of Asaf and his friends we encounter an alternative perspective on events, one rarely found in the mainstream narratives of India’s national movement. The Partition of 1947 and ...

The alternative was fraught with danger and devastation, almost certain loss of property and possibly loss of life. But “India was their home,” she said. To leave it behind was heartbreaking.