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.

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 ...

During the Partition, India Gate became a focal point for gatherings and demonstrations as the nation grappled with its ...

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.

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 ...

MC Davar’s first meeting with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Calcutta is not recorded, but in his interview to the NMML Davar ...

The India-Pakistan rivalry and the violence of partition itself are sometimes incorrectly attributed to religious hatred between Hindus and Muslims. As your book shows, however, the Sikh community in ...

We think of the Raj as controlling only India and Pakistan, and its infamous breakup happening in August 1947. It’s a story ...

In August 1947, Britain divided India, its former colony, into two countries — Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. The fate of Kashmir — then a princely state — was left ...