The British government’s partition of India in August 1947 was a supremely bungled event: undertaken at high speed and with apparently zero foresight. Speaking to journalists about the possibility of ...

We explore the real history of the partition of India and Pakistan and the British crown. Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani American teenager named Kamala Khan, is the latest superhero to join the Marvel ...

It was late 2019, and I was trying to untangle the threads of my father’s rapidly fading memory. When I asked him to tell me his story, I didn’t expect him to start there. My father was born into an ...

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 ...

L to R: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten and Pandit Nehru discuss partition of India 1946 Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is to give the Get ...

When you get into discussions about the Middle East with certain people, you start hearing that the great mistake was the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. If ...

(RNS) — Descendants of those who experienced the Partition of Punjab in 1947 come together to share stories of interfaith collaboration after 75 years of religious animosity in India and Pakistan.

Jyoti Thottam’s Sisters of Mokama, tells the story of missionaries in the Indian state of Bihar, who bore witness to the tumultuous era, offering a different way to understand the period. Jyoti ...

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 ...

The Indian History Congress (IHC) has strongly denounced NCERT's Partition Horrors Remembrance Day modules, alleging the spread of communal falsehoods. IHC claims the modules wrongly implicate the ...

Citing administrative difficulty in governing such a large province, the British formally divided Bengal on 1905. However, ...