The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors.

In doing so, British administrators split the subcontinent into two countries: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. The partition, as the event came to be known, triggered one of the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi linked the deadly Pahalgam terror attack to the Partition of India in 1947 during an address on Tuesday — contending that people should ...

(Why the Partition of India and Pakistan still casts a long shadow over the region.) Confusion over the new border—and rising tensions among those who suddenly found their minority and majority ...

Do you think it is possible to change the conventional wisdom about partition in India and Pakistan where people automatically blame the other side or the British, or are these narratives about ...

The India Pakistan border in Gujarat is invisible but heavily guarded and the villages here live under constant drone alerts, blackouts and surveillance. Senaji Goyal, a resident, said that the ...

That disconnect is dangerous," Rita Manchanda from PIPFPD told DW. She was referring to the partition of India after British rule ended in 1947, which created India and Pakistan and led to the ...

PM Modi said that Pakistan began a “proxy war” against India in the form of cross-border ... had been accepted after the country's partition in 1947. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses ...

Pakistan, the PM said in Gujarat, has understood that it cannot win a war with India after Operation Sindoor. “When the Partition happened in 1947, the chains should have been cut at that time ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that during Partitionwhen India was divided into two, that very night, the first terror attack on Kashmir was launched by ...

The partition of India and subsequent creation of Pakistan came after years of campaigning for Indian independence from British rule. Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become India's first ...

Would It Choose a Different Partition? Imagine the clock turning backward. It’s August 1947. India stands on the edge of ...