The conspiracy to partition India was hatched in the Mumbai bungalow of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. This bungalow ...
The 75th anniversary of the moment when India, Pakistan and what later became Bangladesh were created out of the former colony is being celebrated in South Asia this weekend. But the partition of ...
The roots of the Balochistan conflict trace back to the partition of India in 1947 and Pakistan's forcible annexation of ...
Most fundamentally, Congress abandoned its program for a unified, secular India and accepted and implemented the communal partition of the subcontinent. While the Muslim League pressed for the ...
"If you did not have Partition, you would have to give the Muslim-majority provinces a degree of provincial autonomy," said Anil Seal.
India was intended to be majority-Hindu and a new state – Pakistan – was created for Muslims. The division, known as partition, saw millions of Muslims moving to live in Pakistan and millions ...
To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Partition of India, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour dedicated the entire programme to hearing about the forgotten women of Partition. In August 1947 ...
Partition of Bengal gave rise to a huge body of work — in text and audio-visual — both in West Bengal in India and in East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Here is a list of recommended books, fiction and ...
Former Rajya Sabha MP and noted scholar Prof Rakesh Sinha emphasised the significance of films in preserving the memories of ...
India’s Supreme Court upholds a decision that special status for the Kashmir-Jammu region was only meant to be a tempora ...