Refugees wait for water at a camp in Delhi. The partition of India put millions on the move. Columbia University/Wikimedia Commons In 1947, after years of anti-colonial resistance, Britain finally ...

Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...

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 ...

As India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of independence this week, the legacy of the August 1947 Partition of British-ruled India that resulted in the birth of these two nations is something both are ...

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 ...

A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Along the way she sees overturned bullock carts, ...

Seventy years after the partition of India and Pakistan, both countries are still shaped by the turmoil of that time. Most estimates say that more than a million people were killed during one of the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In August 1947, Great Britain relinquished its grip on 1.8 million square miles of ...

Reporting from Amritsar, India — Amolak Swani’s knobby fingers gripped a cane as she shuffled into the room, her daughter holding her at the elbow. She settled into a chair with a sigh and began ...

The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 is, in a big way, the source of many of the troubles that the region witnesses today. Much literature has been produced narrating the man-made tragedy ...