Yet today, despite that documented violence, the nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh largely accept the political ...

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

India achieved freedom from British colonial yolk on August 15, 1947, however, the country paid a hefty price for independence as the British partitioned Bharat into two parts, India and Pakistan. The ...

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 ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1914, a U.S. ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, officially opening the Panama Canal. In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post ...

In Jalandhar, the northwestern Indian city where Syed Sadiq Abrar was born, he was related to nearly everyone in his close-knit neighborhood: His grandmother lived next door to his great-aunt, and ...

Two elderly men sit at a table; a candle flickers next to a pot of coffee and a board game. With each roll of the dice they share memories from childhood, shaped by the partition of British India in ...

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 ...

Imagine waking up and being told that you, your friends, your family, have a month to pack up and move across the country. Not just that, but when you get to whatever destination you're assigned, ...

9-1. In India, Congress, with the support of the Stalinist CPI, played the central role in aborting the mass anti-imperialist movement that emerged immediately after the war and in restabilising ...