Ram Krishan Singh, a 102-year-old survivor of the 1947 Partition, passed away in Punjab's Patiala. During the violent ...

Informal discussions were held this spring under the auspices of the UN, in hopes of reigniting reunification talks between ...

Some historians argue that partition would have been unnecessary had Britain granted self-rule earlier to India, where Hindus and Muslims had lived side by side for centuries. But the idea of a ...

Sam Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands, explores the impact of five major Partitions on modern Asia through oral histories and ...

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.

Why the Partition of India and Pakistan still casts a long shadow over the region. The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering ...

How India’s partition in 1947 led to the strife over Kashmir today. Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the ...

In 1947, Britain’s hasty withdrawal from India unleashed chaos, violence, and death. The partition of India split the subcontinent along religious lines, displacing 15 million people and killing ...

Sisters divided: How partition ruptured a family in a vanishing community. To mark this week’s anniversary of the partition of India and Pakistan, a writer recalls her encounters with two ...

India and Pakistan have been in conflict since 1947 Partition. A look at its troubled legacy In this Sept, 27, 1947 file photo, Muslim refugees crowd onto a train bound for Pakistan, as it leaves ...

Naseem Banu moved to England and stayed there for some time with both her son and daughter. When Saira Banu also pursued a ...

The partition of India and subsequent creation of Pakistan came after years of campaigning for Indian independence from British rule. Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become India's first ...