Sarah Ansari has previously received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to explore the impact of Independence and Partition on life in India and Pakistan. “Partition ...

Some historians argue that partition would have been unnecessary had Britain granted self-rule earlier to India, where Hindus and Muslims had lived side by side for centuries. But the idea of a ...

The Partition of India has been frequently mentioned in Disney+'s 'Ms. Marvel.' Here's what it really was and how it fits into the show.

IT WAS billed as the solution to independence. But the partition of India instead sparked mass riots and a wave of migration – with the after effects of the border creation in 1947 still felt… ...

In 1947, India became independent from Britain and split into two countries - India and Pakistan. East Pakistan has since become Bangladesh.

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.

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 ...

Seventy years ago, India won its freedom from the British empire. But it came at a price: the partition of India. Survivors reflect back at that time.

Mr Mir and Mr Kohli both experienced the chaos of partition and years later they ended up living and raising a family in Scotland. Their Glaswegian children have been brought knowing very little ...

A virtual reality project helps survivors of India's Partition glimpse long-lost birthplaces they fled as children. Fraught relations between India and Pakistan mean they can't visit in person.

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today. As the British Empire became an unaffordable burden, planning for India's independence quickly ran into trouble.