The communal identities it created eventually culminated into the end of British rule, the partition of India in 1947, with Bengal being divided into West Bengal and East Pakistan, and finally ...
If history is destined to be revisited, the young might be best placed to do so. “Our idea of undivided India is basically ...
The displacement of thousands of Palestinians has been ongoing since the state of Israel was created as a country on the world map in 1948 ... and captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the ...
For the first time in a century, the West Bengal ... purposes in Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of India. State land department sources said that the last time the cadastral map was prepared was in ...
To fully grasp the magnitude of this tragedy, one must trace the roots of this ethno-political fissure to the Partition of India in 1947 ... the stark socio-cultural differences between East and West ...
The second interpretation is that it was a document drawn up to dissuade the Muslim League from demanding Partition ... “East Bengal is going to be a source of embarrassment for Pakistan.” ...
It provides same-day delivery to a 50-mile radius stretching east to Treynor, north to Missouri Valley, south to Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and west to Gretna ... in their own partition of the ...
How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.
Siddhartha Deb, a writer and journalist who lives in NY, has earned multiple awards, including the 2024 Anthony Veasna So ...