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India’s Partition: A History in Photos The division set off communal violence and displaced millions, changing the face and geopolitics of South Asia.
The partition of India forced millions of people to leave their homes to move to the other state. This was the largest forced migration of people that has ever happened, which wasn't because of ...
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 ...
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.
As the Partition plan is announced in the summer of 1947, millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs flee across the new border between India and Pakistan. Mass violence ensues.
It’s been 75 years since the Partition of India — a rupture that still shapes the lives of those born in its aftermath. Oral historian Aanchal Malhotra speaks with Nahlah Ayed about how the ...
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten was sent to India to oversee a change that would lead to a chaotic migration of millions of Indians within a matter of months.
This month marks 75 years since the partition of India – sending Muslims to the newly formed nation of Pakistan, and Hindus and Sikhs to newly independent India. Here, two people who were ...
Mr Singh says he has not written his book, Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence, the product of five years research, on behalf of the BJP and is prepared for any controversy it creates.