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 ...

Why the Partition of India and Pakistan still casts a long shadow over the region The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering ...

Each of these historic sites in Delhi and Lahore holds a piece of the past, offering a window into the events and emotions that shaped the subcontinent during the Partition of India.

The Partition of India and Pakistan provoked the greatest forced migration in human history. A group of Austin Desis share how it shapes their lives.

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.

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.

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 ...

Artist Pritika Chowdhry’s quiet but searing installations pay tribute to massacre casualties, women subjected to sexual violence and the forgotten victims of India’s bloody Partition.

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 sisters ...

India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.