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

Partition split India and Pakistan in 1947 and affected millions of lives across decades. Journalist Anjali Enjeti's new novel explores the way... 'The Parted Earth' Traces The Impact Of India's ...

Because it is the Radcliffe Line, arguably the most unscientific international boundary ever drawn on a map, that led to the Partition of India, millions of deaths, starvation, massacres, rapes, and ...

A stunning new book gathers 254 antique maps that reveal how India was charted and imagined over eight centuries ...

For a long time, the generation that bore the brunt of the violent and acrimonious partition of India – centered on the two provinces that were actually divided, Bengal in the east and Punjab in 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 ...

The 1947 Partition of British India is memorialized as one of the bloodiest and largest migrations in human history. It is estimated that close to 15 million people were uprooted and that between ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated August 31, 2009) Partition is the greatest still-running 'whodunnit' of Indian history. Was the deed done at the Viceregal ...

Historian Sam Dalrymple uncovers the profound connections Burma (now Myanmar) once shared with India’s political and cultural fabric, while highlighting how its separation has been largely overlooked ...