This partition of Bengal caused anger across ... 1945 General Election Attlee was more open to the idea of granting India independence than Churchill had been, which meant that Indian independence ...

Seventy years ago, the Indian subcontinent won independence from the British ... downfall following the creation of India and Pakistan. Before partition, Sharif Manzil was like a public hospital.

Thus the day was chosen, and with the partition of the subcontinent, Pakistan was granted independence on August 14, and India became independent on August 15. India is celebrating the country's ...

India's first finance minister, R.K. Shanmukham Chetty, left behind more than just a budget speech—he provided a vital lens ...

After independence, we were happy ... Where I grew up was really like pre-partition India – with Hindu and Muslim neighbours either side of our Sikh household. In the mid-1990s, the gurdwara ...

self-affirming struggles for independence, partition and the creation of new nations won with non-violent means and violent exchanges. Four countries (India, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) gained ...

but two young nations - the result of a bloody and violent Partition of the subcontinent into what the modern world knows as India and Pakistan. Since Independence, both countries have grown in ...

Despite the historic moment of independence, the division of India in 1947, known as the Partition, was followed by ...

Some of India’s finest storytellers were in their prime. Two films were released in Mumbai, then Bombay, on Independence Day ... 114 were made in Bombay. The partition of Bengal affected ...