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 ...

In 1947, the British Empire drew a line across the Indian subcontinent — and changed history forever. The Partition of India ...

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 ...

The India–Pakistan border, known as the Radcliffe Line, was drawn in 1947 by Sir Cyril Radcliffe during India’s partition.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A one day exhibition portraying the stories of those who witnessed the 1947 Partition of India has taken place in Birmingham. The event, which also marks South Asian Heritage month, saw members of the ...

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 ...

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

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...

India is home to some 200 million Muslims, one of the world’s largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India’s independence, Muslims have often faced ...