India will celebrate its 75th birthday on Aug. 15, 2022. Its independence from British colonial rule followed a complex process, including Partition: the division of India into Muslim-majority ...

For a long time, the generation that bore the brunt of the violent and acrimonious partition of India – centered on the two provinces that were actually divided, Bengal in the east and Punjab in the ...

In this Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, file photo, villagers check their names in the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and take out prints at an internet shop in Pabhokati village in ...

“Partition is an important but overlooked chapter of world history, especially in South Asia, a region from where many of our local residents hail,” said Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla, Executive Director ...

Partition split India and Pakistan in 1947 and affected millions of lives across decades. Journalist Anjali Enjeti's new novel explores the way... 'The Parted Earth' Traces The Impact Of India's ...

Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 years of British rule had ...

The division set off communal violence and displaced millions, changing the face and geopolitics of South Asia. A Muslim refugee train in northern India on its way from Delhi to Lahore, in 1947.Credit ...

Border Security Force personnel patrolling along the barbed wire fence at India-Pakistan border during Independence Day celebrations at RS Pura Sector in Jammu Kashmir on August 14, 2021. Border ...

You can’t actually see the Great Wall of China from space but the border dividing India from Pakistan is unmistakable. For over 1,900 miles, from the shores of the Arabian Sea to the icy mountain ...