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 ...

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 ...

More than 14 million people were displaced during Partition, as Muslims fled to the new nation of Pakistan while Hindus and Sikhs fled to India. "I never grew up with any stories. For many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In Bhadrak, families who took refuge in India during the 1947 Partition are now battling eviction from land they’ve lived on ...