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.

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.

British India’s partition and its consequences for the community life in India and Pakistan have been a recurrent theme in the films of the subcontinent since the 1940s. Many scholars of film studies ...

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 ...

The Partition of India and Pakistan provoked the greatest forced migration in human history. The British, eager to abandon the prized imperial conquest of yesteryear rather than become embroiled ...

During the Partition, India Gate became a focal point for gatherings and demonstrations as the nation grappled with its newfound independence. Today, it stands as a unifying landmark, ...

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.

India and Pakistan have been in conflict since 1947 Partition. A look at its troubled legacy In this Sept, 27, 1947 file photo, Muslim refugees crowd onto a train bound for Pakistan, as it leaves ...

The partition of India in August 1947, when both Pakistan and an independent India won independence from Britain, resulted in one of the largest forced migrations of people in history.

We explore the real history of the partition of India and Pakistan and the British crown. Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani American teenager named Kamala Khan, ...

Sisters divided: How partition ruptured a family in a vanishing community. To mark this week’s anniversary of the partition of India and Pakistan, a writer recalls her encounters with two ...