India’s constitution always gave the executive a great deal of power, but the diversity of the country’s electorate has ...

The Partition of India in 1947 was not just a political division—it was a brutal separation of culture, history, and sacred ...

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 ...

9.9. Partition defined and defines the “freedom” and “independence” incarnated in bourgeois India and Pakistan. The communal pogroms that accompanied the birth of India and Pakistan ...

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, drawing ...

At the time of India’s Partition and independence, there were 562 princely states as enclaves within the Dominion of India, covering 40% of its area and comprising 23% of its population.

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 ...

Prime Minister Modi had remarked that partition was not the desire of ordinary Muslim families, but was pushed by “some ...

Theatre in India continues to reflect on the migrants and their social, economic, cultural, emotional and psychological plight. As in the rest of the world, in India too, playwrights have constantly ...

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 ...

At the Rising Bharat Summit, Amit Shah said, "Muslim population did not want the partition of the nation. And Modi ji said it ...