Usha Sundaram, India’s first woman pilot after Independence, flew daring missions to rescue Indians stranded during Partition ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The partition of India was one of the most tumultuous historical events of the 20th century. In 1947, British India was divided into two separate states, India and Pakistan.

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.