Britain’s hasty withdrawal from India unleashed chaos, violence, and death. The partition of India split the subcontinent ...

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 ...

Whether it is Pakistan, China, Bangladesh or Myanmar, the unfinished business of history haunts the region every day ...

The fresh round of confrontation is yet another escalation of a decades-long conflict over the disputed Kashmir region that began after a bloody partition of India in 1947. Here’s a look at the ...

The partition of India and subsequent creation of Pakistan came after years of campaigning for Indian independence from British rule. Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become India's first ...

In the marshlands of the Rann of Kutch, where the border is invisible yet hotly contested, belongingness becomes tentative ...

A new biography offers astartlingnew perspective  on India’spartition—showinghow Mountbatten,  armed with charm and steely ...

To mark this week’s anniversary of the partition of India and Pakistan, a writer recalls her encounters with two sisters from the Zoroastrian community whose lives were divided forever in 1947.