Years after presiding over the hurried and bloody Partition of India in 1947, Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British India, ...

The novelist and artist Amitava Kumar folds a sensitive narrative into the 142 pages of The Social Life of Indian Trains: A ...

Paintings have the power to heal wounds that words often cannot touch, and in the hands of Krishen Khanna, this magic becomes a language of its own, speaking directly to the soul through color.

The linkage between the partition of Vande Mataram and the Partition of India is not to be scoffed at. Even if the full song is unlikely to be insisted upon and A R Rahman’s catchy version will ...

This article appeared as "The Geography Of Waiting” in Outlook’s 30th anniversary double issue “Party is Elsewhere” dated ...

On the Congress's 140th Foundation Day, the BJP criticized the party as an 'army of sycophants' and the 'weakest link' in ...

DHAKA- Khaleda Zia’s tenure as Bangladesh Prime Minister coincided with some of the most challenging periods in India–Bangladesh relations, an era marked by visible hostility and a series of missed ...

Freedom at Midnight 2 continues from its first part, now dealing with the run up to the partition when new maps are being ...

Haimanti Roy specializes in the political and social history of colonial India and modern South Asia. Her first book, Partitioned Lives: Refugees, Migrants, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65 ...

Nikkhil Advani talks to HT about Freedom at Midnight S2, not demonising anyone in the narrative, and comparisons with The ...

After the Partition of India in 1947, a search began for a new capital for East Punjab. Lahore, the capital of undivided ...

The decision would echo far beyond his own lifetime.