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

The 1947 Partition of British India is memorialized as one of the bloodiest and largest migrations in human history. It is estimated that close to 15 million people were uprooted and that between ...

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 ...

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Would Partition not have happened ... (Keystone/Getty Images) "You see this like in places outside of South Asia, where Indians and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis meet freely.

Local workers unload a Douglas Dakota transport airplane at the US forces airbase in Karachi in 1943 In his 1974 novel Tamas (Darkness), a vivid portrayal of the bloody partition of India ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I help preserve memories of those who witnessed the 1947 Partition of South Asia,” says Bhalla. She continues, “We are a community-based archive that trains and empowers people to record and share ...

In his 1974 novel Tamas (Darkness), a vivid portrayal of the bloody partition of India, author Bhisham Sahni vividly depicts the atmosphere changing in a violence-wracked village as a plane ...

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 ...

Her work focuses on the military industrial complex, postcolonial politics, and muslim identity in South Asia. She is also known for positing the sole spokesman that the partition of India and ...