Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday described India's Partition as "the greatest blunder of history" and said that the ...

In 1947, the Partition of India split British India into new nations—India and Pakistan, with East Pakistan later becoming Bangladesh. A hastily drawn boundary called the Radcliffe Line carved the ...

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The trailer of Batwara 1947 is finally here, offering a powerful glimpse into one of the most painful chapters in Indian ...

Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard her grandmother describe how she crossed into newly-independent India from Pakistan in 1947 with her young children, ...

The debate over citizenship in the Constituent Assembly pitted competing ideas of religion, birth and Partition against a ...

NEW DELHI -- Every year in March, Bir Bahadur Singh goes to the local Sikh shrine and narrates the grim events of the long night six decades ago when 26 women in his family offered their necks to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.

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 ...