In his new book, Midnight's Furies, Nisid Hajari describes the riots and massacres that ensued after Pakistan was established as a separate state,... India's 1947 Partition And The 'Deadly Legacy' ...

Bollywood has been making Partition films since 1973. As 'Main Vaapas Aaunga' arrives in June 2026, here is what 50 years of ...

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 ...

Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...

NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.

This week marks the seventieth anniversary of Partition—one of the bloodiest and most traumatic events of modern times. The basic history is well known. In August 1947, Great Britain granted ...

NEW YORK, March 25, 2010 - "The partition of India in 1947 was the most traumatic event of the 20th century," said Jaswant Singh, an Indian politician and parliament member. "It continues to live in ...