Most fundamentally, Congress abandoned its program for a unified, secular India and accepted and implemented the communal partition of the subcontinent. While the Muslim League pressed for the ...

Mohammad Ali Jinnah, a significant figure behind India's partition and the creation of Pakistan, remains etched in India's ...

The 75th anniversary of the moment when India, Pakistan and what later became Bangladesh were created out of the former colony is being celebrated in South Asia this weekend. But the partition of ...

By the river Icchamati, where history divides and unites, the remnants of the Taki Zamindari House stand as a testament to a ...

To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Partition of India, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour dedicated the entire programme to hearing about the forgotten women of Partition. In August 1947 ...

A counterfactual is thinking about something that might have happened but did not happen. As we celebrate yet another ...

India was intended to be majority-Hindu and a new state – Pakistan – was created for Muslims. The division, known as partition, saw millions of Muslims moving to live in Pakistan and millions ...

India's first finance minister, R.K. Shanmukham Chetty, left behind more than just a budget speech—he provided a vital lens ...

ATTARI: For the third time since the Partition, a group of Hindus arrived in India from neighbouring Pakistan carrying nearly ...

The Rababis of Lahore, a short film by Kirit James Singh and Jasdeep Singh was screened at IHC. The Muslim singers have deep ...

Partition of Bengal gave rise to a huge body of work — in text and audio-visual — both in West Bengal in India and in East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Here is a list of recommended books, fiction and ...