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 ...

Pakistani Rangers, in black, and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel perform the daily retreat ceremony on the India-Pakistan Border at Wagah on September 17, 2014. (Narinder Nanu/Getty ...

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 ...

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

Partition’s roots date back to the 17th century, when the British East India Company, a private company that traded in Indian riches like spices and silks, began acquiring Indian land, taking ...

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 fresh round of confrontation was 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 ...

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.