Muslim refugees sit on the roof of an overcrowded coach railway train near New Delhi, trying to leave India after the 1947 Partition. AP Photo Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when ...

Star-crossed lovers. Intoxicating scents. Old war journals containing ghosts and secrets. What more could you want in a work of historical fiction? Aanchal Malhotra's debut novel, "The Book of ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2026, Sudha Murty emphasised the importance of teaching children about India’s Partition, ...

Pakistani high school student Noman Afzal knows "traitorous" Hindus are to blame for the bloodshed that erupted when British India split into two nations 70 years ago. His history textbook tells him ...

NCERT's new modules on the Partition of India place significant responsibility on the Congress leadership. The modules assert that Congress leaders accepted Partition plans, underestimated Jinnah's ...

"Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), a new book by Nisid Hajari (L). (Author photo: Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) The following ...

Pakistani Rangers (black uniforms) and Indian Border Security Force personnel (brown uniforms) at the Indian Pakistan Wagah Border post about 35km from Amritsar on Jan. 26, 2018. Pakistani Rangers ...

NEW YORK, March 25, 2010 - "The partition of India in 1947 was the most traumatic event of the 20th century," said Jaswant Singh, an Indian politician and parliament member. "It continues to live in ...

The question is unsettling. It resists comfort and refuses the ease of inherited certainties. Yet, on Republic Day, when ...

A special module released by the NCERT to mark "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day" has held Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Congress and then Viceroy Lord Mountbatten responsible for India's Partition, ...

Star-crossed lovers. Intoxicating scents. Old war journals containing ghosts and secrets. What more could you want in a work of historical fiction? Aanchal Malhotra’s debut novel “The Book of ...

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 ...