In this excellent account of the political upheavals that shaped modern Asia, Sam Dalrymple covers a vast amount of ground ...

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The partition, as the division came to be known, triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. It would forever change the face and geopolitics of South Asia; almost 25 years later ...

Partition is an event that occurred in 1947, and it happened when colonial Britain left occupied South Asia. - [Narrator] That's right, the partition in this Marvel show is based on a true ...

The partition, as the division came to be known, triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. It would forever change the face and geopolitics of South Asia; almost 25 years later ...

The 60th anniversary of the partition of India in 1947 and the birth of Pakistan was a momentous event in the region. Millions of people found themselves on the wrong side of the border and hundreds ...

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 up to 2 ...

"My Name is Radha: The Essential Manto" Recommended by professor Madhur Anand, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when an arbitrary red line ...

Here, Baljit Dhillon VikramSingh and Hussan Zia, two people who lived through this pivotal moment in South Asia’s history, share their memories – and partition’s legacy today. Baljit Dhillon ...

“People are looking at a confluence of different factors that makes partition very, very relevant today,” Asghar told Al Jazeera. “South Asia is seeing a lot of religious and ethnic ...

“And for my family, they were indeed angels on earth.” Butalia is only two generations removed from the Partition of South Asia in August 1947, when the British, as they ended their colonial ...